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mauve
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Also known as mallow

thumb|Malva sylvestris|Mallow wildflower

Key facts

Color.title
Old mauve
Color.hex
673147
Color.source
ISCC-NBS
Color.isccname
Dark purplish red

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Mauve
sRGB color hex triplet
E0B0FF
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Contents
  • Mauveine, the first commercial aniline dye
  • Variations
  • Rich mauve
  • French mauve (deep mauve)
  • Opera mauve
  • Mauve taupe
  • Old mauve
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

thumb|Malva sylvestris|Mallow wildflower

Mauve ( ; ) is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower (French: ). The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–1798 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859. Another name for the color is mallow, with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611.

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