Mauve
About Mauve
Mauve is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower. The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–1798 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859. Another name for the color is mallow, with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611.
On the show · 3 mentions total
Do you know that Anton Mauve was famous for painting in grey and blue tones? He never painted in Mauve. Wait, but if you put grey and blue together, isn't that sort of Mauve? No. Kind of dirty blue.
from No Such Thing As Trigger's Stradivarius, 2026-09-17 at 00:36:13 · read transcript
Other times Mauve came up
Yeah, isn't that funny? That's very weird. Mauve means mallow, like marshmallow in French. Does it? That's where that comes from.
No Such Thing As Trigger's Stradivarius, 2026-09-17 · listen
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- CarGurus · United States
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