mauve
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Key facts
- Color.title
- Old mauve
- Color.hex
- 673147
- Color.source
- ISCC-NBS
- Color.isccname
- Dark purplish red
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Article
10 sectionsContents
- 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.