I looked round me. I was on what seemed to be a little lawn in a garden, surrounded by rhododendron bushes, and I noticed that their mauve and purple blossoms were dropping in a shower under the beating of the hail-stones.
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Mauve
//mɔːv//
Synonyms for "mauve" (26 found)
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Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (7)
Related words (13)
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11 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
4 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
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68 translations across 30 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- بَنَفْسَجِيّ adj (colour)
- حمْسي adj (colour)
Bulgarian
1 entries- бледоморав adj (colour)
Catalan
1 entries- malva noun (colour)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 藕合色 noun (colour)
- 藕荷色 noun (colour)
- 錦葵紫 /锦葵紫 noun (colour)
Czech
4 entries- lila adj (colour)
- slézový adj (colour)
- světle fialový adj (colour)
- lila noun (colour)
Dutch
4 entries- mauve adj (colour)
- paars adj (colour)
- mauve noun (colour)
- paars noun (colour)
Esperanto
2 entries- malva adj (colour)
- malvo noun (colour)
Estonian
2 entries- kahvatulilla adj (colour)
- kahvatulilla noun (colour)
Finnish
2 entries- malvanvärinen adj (colour)
- malvanväri noun (colour)
French
2 entries- mauve adj (colour)
- mauve noun (colour)
German
4 entries- blasslila noun (colour)
- fliederfarben noun (colour)
- malvenfarben noun (colour)
- malvenfarbig noun (colour)
Greek
4 entries- ιώδες noun (colour)
- μαβί noun (colour)
- μωβ noun (colour)
- πορφυρό noun (colour)
Hungarian
1 entries- mályva noun (colour)
Ido
1 entries- malva noun (colour)
Italian
1 entries- malva noun (colour)
Japanese
4 entries- 薄紫の adj (colour)
- 藤色の adj (colour)
- 薄紫 noun (colour)
- 藤色 noun (colour)
Māori
2 entries- poroporo adj (colour)
- poroporo noun (colour)
Norman
1 entries- lîlas noun (colour)
Persian
2 entries- ارغوانی adj (colour)
- ارغوانی noun (colour)
Polish
1 entries- moweina noun (dye)
Portuguese
2 entries- lilás adj (colour)
- lilás noun (colour)
Romanian
3 entries- liliachiu adj (colour)
- mov adj (colour)
- mov noun (colour)
Russian
2 entries- мальвовый adj (colour)
- розовато-лиловый adj (colour)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- liath-phurpur adj (colour)
- liath-phurpur noun (colour)
Slovene
2 entries- lila noun (colour)
- lilasta noun (colour)
Spanish
1 entries- malva noun (colour)
Turkish
2 entries- eflatun noun (dye)
- eflatun noun (colour)
Vietnamese
2 entries- (màu) cẩm quỳ adj (colour)
- (màu) cẩm quỳ noun (colour)
Walloon
1 entries- måve adj (colour)
Welsh
4 entries- porffor gwelw adj (colour)
- mof noun (dye)
- mof noun (colour)
- rhuddlaswyn noun (colour)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Among the paintings of Claude Monet is one titled "Lilac Irises" and another called "Iris Mauve."
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Mauve was initially called "Tyrian purple."
Source: tatoeba (4486791)
Heather flowers are usually mauve.
Source: tatoeba (10860975)
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