mauven.adj.

Brit.

/məʊv/, U.S.

/mɔv/,

/moʊv/,

/mɑv/

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mauve.

Etymology: < French mauve the plant mallow, the colour of the mallow's flower (13th cent. in Old French in sense ‘the plant mallow’; 1804 or earlier as noun as colour name, 1829 as adjective) < classical Latin malva malva n.

A. n.

1. Any of a range of light shades of purple between lilac and violet; spec. the colour of the aniline dye (see sense A. 2).

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > purple dye or pigment > [noun]

turnsole1375

cork1483

jarecork1483

orchil1483

purple1519

purpurisse1519

archil1551

waycoriant1658

orchilla1703

cudbear1772

purple lake1785

imperial purple1788

mauve?1796

phenicin1823

French purple1830

indigo-purple1838

mauve1859

Perkin's mauve1859

violine1859

mauveine1863

purple of Cassiusc1865

tyroline1867

Paris violet1868

Hofmann violet1869

methyl violet1873

punicin1879

crystal violet1885

chrome violet1892

mineral violet1913

Monastral1936

manganese purple1937

?1796–8 Encycl. Perthensis VII. 647/2 Dyeing... The mixture of red and blue produces violet, purple, dove colour, pansey, amaranth, lilac, mauve, and a great number of other shades.

1859 Notes & Queries 1 Oct. 267 We are not quite correct in describing the fashionable colour as mauve.

1861 St. James's Mag. 1 292 The fashionable and really beautiful mauve and its varieties.

1882 Garden 21 Oct. 353/3 A pretty variety..finely edged with pale mauve.

1898 Daily News 29 Sept. 3/4 Cashmere in a tone of Burgundy that is sometimes called aubergine, from the deep reddish mauve of the vegetable.

1927 Daily Express 12 Mar. 3/5 Larkspur, a pastel blue slightly inclining to the mauve.

1958 J. Betjeman Coll. Poems 250 The walls are alternately painted Off-yellow and festival mauve.

1991 J. Richardson Life of Picasso I. x. 153 But art populaire is not the only source of these cacophanous mauves, lime greens, sugar pinks and saffron yellows.

2. A bright but delicate purple aniline dye, one of the earliest synthetic dyes. Cf. Perkin's mauve n. at Perkin n.³ 1. Now historical.The dye was originally called aniline purple by its discoverer, W. H. Perkin, and was patented in 1856 ( Brit. Patent 1984).

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > purple dye or pigment > [noun]

turnsole1375

cork1483

jarecork1483

orchil1483

purple1519

purpurisse1519

archil1551

waycoriant1658

orchilla1703

cudbear1772

purple lake1785

imperial purple1788

mauve?1796

phenicin1823

French purple1830

indigo-purple1838

mauve1859

Perkin's mauve1859

violine1859

mauveine1863

purple of Cassiusc1865

tyroline1867

Paris violet1868

Hofmann violet1869

methyl violet1873

punicin1879

crystal violet1885

chrome violet1892

mineral violet1913

Monastral1936

manganese purple1937

1859 All Year Round 10 Sept. 468/2 It took Mr. Perkins three anxious years..before repeated oxidisations worked their spells, and Mauve flashed upon his..eyes.

1860 Chem. News 21 Jan. 74/2 Notices of some of the patents taken out for the preparation and use of the new purple dyes generally known as the ‘mauve or Perkins' [sic] Purple’, [etc.].

1863 H. B. Jones & A. W. Hoffman Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 9) 672 Mauve thus prepared forms a brittle substance, having a beautiful bronze-coloured surface.

1911 I. W. Fay Chem. Coal-tar Dyes xii. 298 Mauve, the very first dye prepared by Perkin in 1856.

1971 E. Gurr Synthetic Dyes 123 Mauveine (mauve; Perkin's violet) is a basic dye of the azine group.

B. adj.

Of the colour mauve.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [adjective] > other purples

mulberry-coloured1787

plum-coloured1799

mulberry1803

amaranthine1808

mauve1833

mauve-colour1859

mauve-coloured1860

mauvish1876

pontifical1880

plummy1885

plum1887

petunia1892

palatinate1893

1833 Court Jrnl. 2 Mar. 134/2 Mrs Melvil Wilson... White moire poult-de-soie dress; corsage and train of mauve terry, trimmed with satin.

1860 C. M. Yonge Stokesley Secret (1861) ix. 137 Her mauve muslin..flounced up to her waist.

1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. ii. 126 Some beautiful mauve patches of almond-blossom.

1924 E. Sitwell Sleeping Beauty xx. 77 The mauve summer rain Is falling again.

1972 N. Freeling Long Silence ii. 156 She..was being given a choice between crème de cacao, crème de banane and a mauve concoction known in Holland as Parfait Amour.

1991 P. Barker Regeneration vi. 57 Mrs Prior was a small upright woman, neatly dressed in a dark suit and mauve blouse.

Compounds

C1.

mauve-colour adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [adjective] > other purples

mulberry-coloured1787

plum-coloured1799

mulberry1803

amaranthine1808

mauve1833

mauve-colour1859

mauve-coloured1860

mauvish1876

pontifical1880

plummy1885

plum1887

petunia1892

palatinate1893

1859 Blackwood's Lady's Mag. 46 61 The lower part of the skirt is trimmed with ruches of mauve-colour crape.

mauve-coloured adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [adjective] > other purples

mulberry-coloured1787

plum-coloured1799

mulberry1803

amaranthine1808

mauve1833

mauve-colour1859

mauve-coloured1860

mauvish1876

pontifical1880

plummy1885

plum1887

petunia1892

palatinate1893

1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 427 Beads..mauve-coloured round or oval.

1939 Geol. Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandl. 60 622 Muscovite occurs in the somewhat unusual form of deep mauve-coloured, compact, cryptocrystalline masses.

1991 C. Hiaasen Native Tongue (1992) xxx. 335 Carrie smeared the bridge of her nose with mauve-colored zinc oxide.

C2. Modifying the names of other colours.

mauve-pink adj.

ΚΠ

1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil I. 66 The glorious mauve-pink bracts of the Bougainvillea.

1899 B. W. Warhurst Colour Dict. 44 Lilac-rose is a dull rose..which..as a tint will appear as..Mauve-pink.

1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 92 Catalpa Fargesii..with its fine var. Duclouxii with large mauve-pink flowers.

1990 Plants & Gardens Autumn 30/1 The flower..is a strange dusky red deepening in colour towards the stalk on the outside and a paler mauve-pink on the inside.

mauve-red adj.

ΚΠ

1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 57 Their mauve-red petals on the cloth.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mauve
释义	mauven.adj. Brit. /məʊv/, U.S. /mɔv/, /moʊv/, /mɑv/ Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mauve. Etymology: < French mauve the plant mallow, the colour of the mallow's flower (13th cent. in Old French in sense ‘the plant mallow’; 1804 or earlier as noun as colour name, 1829 as adjective) < classical Latin malva malva n. A. n. 1. Any of a range of light shades of purple between lilac and violet; spec. the colour of the aniline dye (see sense A. 2). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > purple dye or pigment > [noun] turnsole1375 cork1483 jarecork1483 orchil1483 purple1519 purpurisse1519 archil1551 waycoriant1658 orchilla1703 cudbear1772 purple lake1785 imperial purple1788 mauve?1796 phenicin1823 French purple1830 indigo-purple1838 mauve1859 Perkin's mauve1859 violine1859 mauveine1863 purple of Cassiusc1865 tyroline1867 Paris violet1868 Hofmann violet1869 methyl violet1873 punicin1879 crystal violet1885 chrome violet1892 mineral violet1913 Monastral1936 manganese purple1937 ?1796–8 Encycl. Perthensis VII. 647/2 Dyeing... The mixture of red and blue produces violet, purple, dove colour, pansey, amaranth, lilac, mauve, and a great number of other shades. 1859 Notes & Queries 1 Oct. 267 We are not quite correct in describing the fashionable colour as mauve. 1861 St. James's Mag. 1 292 The fashionable and really beautiful mauve and its varieties. 1882 Garden 21 Oct. 353/3 A pretty variety..finely edged with pale mauve. 1898 Daily News 29 Sept. 3/4 Cashmere in a tone of Burgundy that is sometimes called aubergine, from the deep reddish mauve of the vegetable. 1927 Daily Express 12 Mar. 3/5 Larkspur, a pastel blue slightly inclining to the mauve. 1958 J. Betjeman Coll. Poems 250 The walls are alternately painted Off-yellow and festival mauve. 1991 J. Richardson Life of Picasso I. x. 153 But art populaire is not the only source of these cacophanous mauves, lime greens, sugar pinks and saffron yellows. 2. A bright but delicate purple aniline dye, one of the earliest synthetic dyes. Cf. Perkin's mauve n. at Perkin n.³ 1. Now historical.The dye was originally called aniline purple by its discoverer, W. H. Perkin, and was patented in 1856 ( Brit. Patent 1984). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > purple dye or pigment > [noun] turnsole1375 cork1483 jarecork1483 orchil1483 purple1519 purpurisse1519 archil1551 waycoriant1658 orchilla1703 cudbear1772 purple lake1785 imperial purple1788 mauve?1796 phenicin1823 French purple1830 indigo-purple1838 mauve1859 Perkin's mauve1859 violine1859 mauveine1863 purple of Cassiusc1865 tyroline1867 Paris violet1868 Hofmann violet1869 methyl violet1873 punicin1879 crystal violet1885 chrome violet1892 mineral violet1913 Monastral1936 manganese purple1937 1859 All Year Round 10 Sept. 468/2 It took Mr. Perkins three anxious years..before repeated oxidisations worked their spells, and Mauve flashed upon his..eyes. 1860 Chem. News 21 Jan. 74/2 Notices of some of the patents taken out for the preparation and use of the new purple dyes generally known as the ‘mauve or Perkins' [sic] Purple’, [etc.]. 1863 H. B. Jones & A. W. Hoffman Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 9) 672 Mauve thus prepared forms a brittle substance, having a beautiful bronze-coloured surface. 1911 I. W. Fay Chem. Coal-tar Dyes xii. 298 Mauve, the very first dye prepared by Perkin in 1856. 1971 E. Gurr Synthetic Dyes 123 Mauveine (mauve; Perkin's violet) is a basic dye of the azine group. B. adj. Of the colour mauve. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [adjective] > other purples mulberry-coloured1787 plum-coloured1799 mulberry1803 amaranthine1808 mauve1833 mauve-colour1859 mauve-coloured1860 mauvish1876 pontifical1880 plummy1885 plum1887 petunia1892 palatinate1893 1833 Court Jrnl. 2 Mar. 134/2 Mrs Melvil Wilson... White moire poult-de-soie dress; corsage and train of mauve terry, trimmed with satin. 1860 C. M. Yonge Stokesley Secret (1861) ix. 137 Her mauve muslin..flounced up to her waist. 1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ I. ii. 126 Some beautiful mauve patches of almond-blossom. 1924 E. Sitwell Sleeping Beauty xx. 77 The mauve summer rain Is falling again. 1972 N. Freeling Long Silence ii. 156 She..was being given a choice between crème de cacao, crème de banane and a mauve concoction known in Holland as Parfait Amour. 1991 P. Barker Regeneration vi. 57 Mrs Prior was a small upright woman, neatly dressed in a dark suit and mauve blouse. Compounds C1. mauve-colour adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [adjective] > other purples mulberry-coloured1787 plum-coloured1799 mulberry1803 amaranthine1808 mauve1833 mauve-colour1859 mauve-coloured1860 mauvish1876 pontifical1880 plummy1885 plum1887 petunia1892 palatinate1893 1859 Blackwood's Lady's Mag. 46 61 The lower part of the skirt is trimmed with ruches of mauve-colour crape. mauve-coloured adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [adjective] > other purples mulberry-coloured1787 plum-coloured1799 mulberry1803 amaranthine1808 mauve1833 mauve-colour1859 mauve-coloured1860 mauvish1876 pontifical1880 plummy1885 plum1887 petunia1892 palatinate1893 1860 R. F. Burton in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 1859 29 427 Beads..mauve-coloured round or oval. 1939 Geol. Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandl. 60 622 Muscovite occurs in the somewhat unusual form of deep mauve-coloured, compact, cryptocrystalline masses. 1991 C. Hiaasen Native Tongue (1992) xxx. 335 Carrie smeared the bridge of her nose with mauve-colored zinc oxide. C2. Modifying the names of other colours. mauve-pink adj. ΚΠ 1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil I. 66 The glorious mauve-pink bracts of the Bougainvillea. 1899 B. W. Warhurst Colour Dict. 44 Lilac-rose is a dull rose..which..as a tint will appear as..Mauve-pink. 1952 A. G. L. Hellyer Sanders' Encycl. Gardening (ed. 22) 92 Catalpa Fargesii..with its fine var. Duclouxii with large mauve-pink flowers. 1990 Plants & Gardens Autumn 30/1 The flower..is a strange dusky red deepening in colour towards the stalk on the outside and a paler mauve-pink on the inside. mauve-red adj. ΚΠ 1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 57 Their mauve-red petals on the cloth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.?1796
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