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mauve

adjective as in purplish color

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Example Sentences

The village houses are done up in pale gray and mauve and preside over lawns so neat and green they look like carpeting.

The opening look combined a light turquoise, slinky evening gown with a mauve headpiece.

The palette was gentle and pretty, focusing on rose pinks, lavenders, dusky mauve, mint, faun and pale lemon.

Wool lace blouses with dolman sleeves topped slim matching skirts in shades of pea green and mauve.

The eddies beyond the breakwater were a light and delicate mauve and looked nervously alive.

This time there was a faint scream in answer and a mauve-and-white bonnet bobbed agitatedly up the road.

Oh, yes, and he wants you to send him some new pajamas—only two or three pairs, and you're not to send him mauve ones.

These Chian cigarettes in their diaphanous paper of mildest mauve would suit your oddly remote, your curiously shy glance.

In the sky, splinters of mauve tore at curtains of purplish flame.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mauve, such as: lavender, lilac, plum, violet, and violaceous.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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