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• n  a moderate purple
• s  of a pale to moderate greyish violet color

• Evelyn became one of a mauve circle of which glittery, willowy Harold Acton was the titular Tiresias.
• He had studied "mauve decade" press-agentry and labored long to achieve restraint amid the many "priceless" opportunities that flew to mind.
• It was crammed with mauve and red plush sofas, chairs, beds and chests, mostly of vast age and hideousness, and almost all associated with the ancient indiscretions of the .

News & Articles

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• Michelle Dockery in Her Tennis-Watching Outfit
  In celebration of Day 1 at Wimbledon, Lady Mary showed up alongside Lady Edith to the Evian Live Young VIP suite wearing a casual, summery mauve-pink shirtdress contrasted with a white collar and large buttons. The actress paired the dress with a navy overcoat, chestnut ballet flats, and a canary ... More »
  June 25, 2013 - New York Magazine
• Off the walls of teens
  Want to know everything there is to know about the resident teenager? Walk into her room. "Three minutes of observation in my bedroom will tell you more about me than three hours of conversation," Valerie Lenzi, 18, a senior at Owen J. Roberts High School, wrote in her Common App college essay. "Walk through the heavy, metal kitchen door, up the mauve-carpeted staircase . . . and stop directly ...
  June 22, 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
• Off the walls of teens
  Want to know everything there is to know about the resident teenager? Walk into her room. "Three minutes of observation in my bedroom will tell you more about me than three hours of conversation," Valerie Lenzi, 18, a senior at Owen J. Roberts High School, wrote in her Common App college essay. "Walk through the heavy, metal kitchen door, up the mauve-carpeted staircase . . . and stop directly ...
  June 22, 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Quotes

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• Maila Nurmi in Los Angeles Times
  I bound my bosoms, so that I was flat-chested,Nurmi said, "and I got a wig, and painted my body a kind of a mauve white pancake with a little lavender powder so that I looked as though I'd been entombed."
• Peter Molyneux in MTV.com
  Peter Molyneux responds: "It's either mauve or it's blue. I'll just have to check. [peers down to his belt line and peeks]. It is actually blue."
• Graham Greene in The Australian
  Chorus girls paraded 20 feet up among the great palm-trees, while pink and mauve searchlights swept the floor,commented Greene on a spectacle that has lost none of its '50s flamboyance.