Mauve
Mauve (mōv) , noun
[French, mallow, Latin malva. So named from the similarity of the color to that of the petals of common mallow, Malva sylvestris. See Mallow.]
A color of a delicate purple, violet, or lilac.
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Mauve aniline (Chemistry) , a dyestuff produced artificially by the oxidation of commercial aniline, and the first discovered of the so-called coal-tar, or aniline, dyes. It consists of the sulphate of mauveine, and is a dark brown or bronze amorphous powder, which dissolves to a beatiful purple color. Called also aniline purple, violine, Perkin's mauve, etc.