6 Color names for "Shades Of Mauve"

The rich tone of mauve is referred to as mauve by Crayola.

The first recorded use of mauve taupe as a color name in English was in 1925. The normalized color coordinates for raspberry glacé are identical to raspberry glacé, first recorded as a color name in English in 1926.

Opera mauve is a color whose first recorded use as a color name in English dates back to 1927.

The deep tone of mauve is referred to as mauve by Pourpre.com, a color list that is widely popular in France.

The first recorded use of old mauve as a color name in English was in 1925. The normalized color coordinates for old mauve are identical to wine dregs, which was first recorded as a color name in English in 1924.

Mauve (mohv, mawv) is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower (French: mauve). The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–98 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. Mauve contains more gray and more blue than a pale tint of magenta. Many pale wildflowers called "blue" are more accurately classified as mauve.Mauve is also sometimes described as pale violet.