mauveness
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Etymology edit
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mauveness (uncountable)
- The state or condition of being mauve; mauve colour.
- 1896, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Temple bar:
- They resemble amethysts, and vary in colour from an opaque milky mauveness to a clear deep purple.
- 1923, Elizabeth Bowen, “Coming Home”, in Encounters, page 195:
- The tarnished mirror on the wall distorted and reproved her angry face in its mild mauveness.