mauve

• The walls were mauve, the floor covered with paper streamers and multicolored cotton balls. —  Maigret Loses his Temper [89] Georges Simenon
• Her handbag was mauve, a great big showy handbag with a gilt buckle, and she was carrying a brown carrier bag. —  The Third Wexford Omnibus
• He called it "mauve," from the French word for the mallow, the colour of whose flower it somewhat resembled. —  Science and Morals and Other Essays
• There was quite enough illumination to show how brilliant and tender they were ruddy and green and mauve, and bronze that was almost gold. —  Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales
• When we look into shop windows together she will refer to a yellow dress as mauve, a pink as white. —  The Stretton Street Affair

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