mauve
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French mauve (“mallow”), from Latin malva, which has a purple colour. Doublet of mallow. Coined in 1856 by the chemist William Henry Perkin, when he accidentally created the first aniline dye.
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /məʊv/
- (US) IPA(key): /mɔːv/, /moʊv/
Audio (UK) (file) Audio (US) (file) Audio (US) (alternative) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊv, -ɔːv
Noun edit
mauve (countable and uncountable, plural mauves)
- (historical) A bright purple synthetic dye.
- The colour of this dye; a pale purple or violet colour.
- mauve:
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter VIII, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 151:
- Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.
Quotations edit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:mauve.
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Adjective edit
mauve (comparative mauver or more mauve, superlative mauvest or most mauve)
- Having a pale purple colour.
- 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 222:
- [A]long their time-marked walls wistaria threw patches of mauve blossom.
Quotations edit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:mauve.
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French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old French, from Latin malva (“mallow”), which has a purple colour; ultimately of Semitic origin.
Noun edit
mauve f (plural mauves)
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mauve m (plural mauves)
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mauve (plural mauves)
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Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Middle French mauve, from Old French mave (“mew”), from Old English mǣw (“mew, seagull”), from Proto-Germanic *maihwaz, *maiwaz (“seagull”). Related to mouette. Cognate with German Möwe (“seagull”), Dutch meeuw (“seagull”), Danish måge (“seagull”), Icelandic mávur (“seagull”), Polish mewa (“seagull”) (from Germanic). More at mew.
Noun edit
mauve f (plural mauves)
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Further reading edit
- “mauve”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old French mave (“mew”), from Old English mǣw (“mew, seagull”) or Old Norse már, mávar (compare Icelandic mávur), from Proto-Germanic *maihwaz, *maiwaz (“seagull”).
Noun edit
mauve f (plural mauves)
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Etymology 2 edit
From Old French, from Latin malva.
Noun edit
mauve f (plural mauves)
- (Jersey) tree mallow (Malva arborea, syn. Lavatera arborea)