Color Names · Entry

Mauve

French

“a pale purple, after the mallow flower”

Where it comes from

mauve, 'mallow' (the flower)

Fun Fact

Mauve became a sensation in the 1850s after chemist William Perkin accidentally created the first synthetic aniline dye, mauveine, while trying to synthesize quinine.

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