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The color "deep mauve" has long been employed in literature and descriptive texts to evoke a sense of subtle elegance and transformative atmosphere. In early works, it appeared in carefully paired color schemes—often alongside deep ultramarine—to enhance visual detail in printed plates ([1], [2]). Later, periodical descriptions noted its muted quality, as in a "dull deep mauve" captured by The Stamp Collector's Magazine ([3]). Novelistic uses further illustrate its evocative power: from the luminescent glow of a deep mauve tint permeating a lady's paint ([4]), to the unexpected appearance on a sea wrack weed streaked with white ([5]). Its presence persists in imaginative portrayals, such as the energy beam that ionized the air into deep mauve ([6]) and in serene gardens where flowers echo both deep and pale mauve hues ([7]).
  1. deep mauve and deep ultramarine ( plate 3 ).
    — from Gambia by Frederick John Melville
  2. deep mauve and deep ultramarine ( plate 3 ).
    — from Gambia by Frederick John Melville
  3. The Stamp Collector's Magazine in December, 1874 (XII: 182) says it has "just appeared in a dull deep mauve."
    — from Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Clifton A. (Clifton Armstrong) Howes
  4. Lady Harrowfield had been losing heavily, and a deep mauve shade glowed through all her paint.
    — from Beyond The Rocks: A Love Story by Elinor Glyn
  5. "In cancer take the sea wrack Torrek Mendrek—a weed of deep mauve colour streaked with white.
    — from The Sorcery Club by Elliott O'Donnell
  6. A beam of energy, so strong it ionized the air and turned it deep mauve, seemed to be engulfing Michael.
    — from Project Cyclops by Thomas Hoover
  7. A patch of Michaelmas daisies, deep mauve and pale mauve, and a bright yellow flower beside them, show where a garden used to stand near by.
    — from Unhappy Far-Off Things by Lord Dunsany

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