How to pronounce mauve

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What mauve means

adjective

Of a pale, soft purple color

In a sentence: Mom painted the bedroom walls mauve, the color of faded lilac petals.

Where it comes from: It's French for the mallow plant, which has purple flowers. A chemist named William Perkin made the first mauve dye by accident in 1856.

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