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Mauve (from the French form of Malva "mallow") is a color that is named after the mallow flower. Another name for the color is mallow [34] with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611. [35] Since the color mauve has a hue code of 276, it may be regarded as a pale tone of violet.
Between 1859 and 1861, mauve became a fashion must-have. The weekly journal All the Year Round described women wearing the colour as "all flying countryward, like so many migrating birds of purple paradise". [12] Punch magazine published cartoons poking fun at the huge popularity of the colour: "The Mauve Measles are spreading to so serious an ...
Mauve / ˈ m oʊ v / ⓘ [24] (rhymes with "grove"; from the French form of Malva "mallow") is a pale purple. Mauve is named after the mallow flower. Another name for the color is mallow [25] with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611. [26]
Magenta is variously defined as a purplish-red, reddish-purple, or a mauvish–crimson color. On color wheels of the RGB and CMY color models, it is located midway between red and blue, opposite green. Complements of magenta are evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 500–530 nm.
Mauveine, also known as aniline purple and Perkin's mauve, was the first synthetic organic chemical dye, [24] [25] discovered serendipitously during an attempt to make quinine in 1856. Its chemical name is 3-amino-2,±9-dimethyl-5-phenyl-7-(p-tolylamino) phenazinium acetate.
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