Chemical compound and synthetic dye.
Sinònims
Examples for "mauve"
Examples for "mauve"
1He finally rounds up a mauve number which he takes with him.
2Mrs. Gray, in an attractive mauve house-gown, came in from the kitchen.
3In the sky, splinters of mauve tore at curtains of purplish flame.
4Several rivers traced bright silver threads across the mauve and jade vegetation.
5The images dim to an impotent mauve and the stage act begins.
1Despite the grand allusion, Perkin in 1859 renamed the color mauve (inspired by the mallow flower) and the dye mauveine.
2Again, the base known as mauve, or mauveine, has a composition shown by the formula C_{27}H_{24}N_{4}.
1Among them are aniline violet, iodine violet, madder, alkanet, orchil and logwood.
2Recipe to Make Violet Ink.-Ordinaryaniline violet soluble in water, with a little alcohol and glycerine, makes an excellent ink.