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5 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a moderate purple
adjective of a pale to moderate greyish violet color
originBorrowed from French mauve (“mallow”), from Latin malva, which has a purple colour. Doublet of mallow. Coined in 1856 by the chemist William Henry Perkin, when he accidentally created the first aniline dye.
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