MAUVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mauve mean? 

• MAUVE (noun)
  The noun MAUVE has 1 sense:

1. a moderate purple

  Familiarity information: MAUVE used as a noun is very rare.

• MAUVE (adjective)
  The adjective MAUVE has 1 sense:

1. of a pale to moderate greyish violet color

  Familiarity information: MAUVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAUVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A moderate purple

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("mauve" is a kind of...):

purple; purpleness (a purple color or pigment)

Derivation:

mauve (of a pale to moderate greyish violet color)

• MAUVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a pale to moderate greyish violet color

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

Derivation:

mauve (a moderate purple)

 Context examples 

With these thrilling words he rushed away, and flinging open the door of the mauve salon, was about to enter, when he received...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

'Alas, my cruel fate condemns me to remain here till my tyrant is destroyed.' 'Where is the villain?' 'In the mauve salon. Go, brave heart, and save me from despair.' 'I obey, and return victorious or dead!'

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)