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Color:
Delicate Mauve


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Colors with the same hue:
Quartz
Byzantium
Byzantine
Brilliant rose
Shampoo
Similar colors:
Thistle
Misty Lavender
Faded Lavender
Shampoo
Faint Pink
Light Lilac
Lilac
Azalea
Faded Pink
Delicate Rose
Aubergine
Kobi
Soft Lavender
Faded Lilac
Pale Mauve
Illusion
Pale plum
Wisteria
English lavender
Carnation pink
Whisper
Magnolia
Soft Purple
Pale lavender
Phantom
Old lavender
Soap
Faded Purple
Cloud
Light Gray
Words evoked by this color:
renovated,  loft,  prefatory,  manageable,  compliant,  pumice,  pilates,  receding,  scattered,  reduced,  minor,  defuse,  preliminary,  scanned,  preview,  translational,  secretarial,  ashy,  autoclave,  sink,  dishwasher,  cooker,  cookware,  saucepan,  embrace,  meredith,  massage,  doze,  hummed,  comforting,  harmoniously,  bethany,  palliate,  palliation,  supple,  adagio,  ambience,  palliative,  ambiance,  gate,  bedazzle,  evaporating,  transpired,  humidity,  transpire,  eyre,  mizzle,  veiled,  permeate,  recent
Literary analysis:
The color "delicate mauve" is often employed in literature to evoke an air of subtle elegance and transient beauty. In descriptions of attire, it enhances the visual delicacy of a character’s appearance—a gown trailing over a rich carpet or a satin ribbon matching a niece’s dress ([1], [2]). The hue also lends a poetic quality to landscapes, whether seen as the gentle wash of a distant mountain range, an island under a pale late-afternoon sky, or even a breakwater’s eddies that appear nervously alive ([3], [4], [5]). Authors stretch its other connotations further by attributing delicate mauve to unexpected facets of life, transforming a clear liquid in a luxurious presentation or imbuing a face with soft, otherworldly tones ([6], [7]), and even suggesting that the placement of such a subtle tint is key to its charm or potential hideousness ([8]).
  1. The folds of the delicate mauve gown trailed over the rich carpet.
    — from A Vanished Hand by Sarah Doudney
  2. The bouquet was tied with a delicate mauve satin ribbon that perfectly matched the gown worn by her niece.
    — from Officer 666 by Barton Wood Currie
  3. Away in the distance the range of the Yeldo hills showed a delicate mauve against the morning sky.
    — from The Princess Galva: A Romance by David Whitelaw
  4. In the late afternoon, the day we passed by, the sky was a hazy grey and the island a delicate mauve.
    — from The Spell of Japan by Isabel Anderson
  5. The eddies beyond the breakwater were a light and delicate mauve and looked nervously alive.
    — from Bella Donna: A Novel by Robert Hichens
  6. He has a delicate mauve face.
    — from Ulysses by James Joyce
  7. On a silver salver Lambart bore in and presented to his mistress a large liqueur glass filled with a clear liquid of delicate mauve hue.
    — from Under Cover by Roi Cooper Megrue
  8. The dullest mud-color, if in {184} its right place, is charming; and the most delicate mauve, if in the wrong place, hideous.
    — from Lectures on Painting, Delivered to the Students of the Royal Acadamy by Edward Armitage

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