Definition of "mauve" []

• A moderate grayish violet to moderate reddish purple. (noun)

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• "Children look for the Little People in mauve flowers – Canterbury bells and hyacinths – and, though they never find them, they know them there."
• "Looking at picture two I get this unnerving feeling the color scheme is taken one step too far by dressing both girls in mauve."
• "It seems that up to 50 percent of schizophrenics have a biochemical quirk called the mauve factor a chemical by-product from oxidation injury to our fats and proteins.57These odd compounds can bind to zinc and vitamin B6, leading to a functional zinc deficiency."