mauve

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But the analogy of debase has probably caused demean (cf. its derivative de - meanor) to assume the sense of de - plus mean ` base. '

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  1. noun A moderate grayish violet to moderate reddish purple.

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  • But the analogy of debase has probably caused demean (cf. its derivative de - meanor) to assume the sense of de - plus mean ` base. ' —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 4
  • The red had turned to mauve, the mauve was becoming violet, and then clear blue. —  The Fuzzy Papers
  • It's done in grandlady's favorite color - mauve, and there are matching draperies and little gilt chairs like those in the Waldorf-Astoria ballroom. —  Give Us Forever
  • The car was mauve, and its Minnesota license plate matched the one dispatch had given him. —  Nutrition
  • Its colour varied between purple and mauve, and whether this was because he was being slowly strangled by me or because of his reaction to his erstwhile partner's ready and callous abandonment of him was difficult to say. —  Puppet on a Chain
 

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  1. French, from Old French mallow, from Latin malva; see mallow.

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  1. from French mauve, mallow: see mallow.
 

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