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語源

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.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /məʊv/
• (米国発音) IPA: /mɔːv/, /moʊv/
• 韻: -əʊv, -ɔːv

名詞

mauve (countable and uncountable, plural mauves)

1. (historical) A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.

   mauveine:  

   old mauve:  

2. A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded.

   mauve:  

   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter VIII, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: 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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:mauve.

派生語

形容詞

mauve (comparative mauver or more mauve, superlative mauvest or most mauve)

1. 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.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:mauve.

参考

• Appendix:Colors

アナグラム

• aevum, ævum