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mauve

/mohv/US // moʊv //UK // (məʊv) //

紫红色,淡紫色,紫罗兰色,淡紫色的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a pale bluish purple.
    • : a purple dye obtained from aniline, discovered in 1856: the first of the coal-tar dyes.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of the color of mauve: a mauve dress.

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Examples

  • The aurora looked like a ribbon of pink or mauve light, sometimes with "picket fence" columns of green light passing through the ribbon.

  • The movie’s images are rendered in soft, suedelike tones, mauves and grays and shadowy taupes, colors that speak of either giving up or hanging on, depending on your mood.

  • The unusual sky glow’s mauve arc looks a bit like an aurora, but isn’t.

  • Scientists have broken the light of STEVE’s mauve streak into its many individual wavelengths.

  • The village houses are done up in pale gray and mauve and preside over lawns so neat and green they look like carpeting.

  • The opening look combined a light turquoise, slinky evening gown with a mauve headpiece.

  • The palette was gentle and pretty, focusing on rose pinks, lavenders, dusky mauve, mint, faun and pale lemon.

  • Wool lace blouses with dolman sleeves topped slim matching skirts in shades of pea green and mauve.

  • The eddies beyond the breakwater were a light and delicate mauve and looked nervously alive.

  • This time there was a faint scream in answer and a mauve-and-white bonnet bobbed agitatedly up the road.

  • Oh, yes, and he wants you to send him some new pajamas—only two or three pairs, and you're not to send him mauve ones.

  • These Chian cigarettes in their diaphanous paper of mildest mauve would suit your oddly remote, your curiously shy glance.

  • In the sky, splinters of mauve tore at curtains of purplish flame.