• n. 淡紫色；苯胺紫；淡紫色染料
• adj. 淡紫色的
• n. (Mauve)人名；(德、荷)毛弗；(法)莫夫

來自古法語mauve,來自拉丁語malva,錦葵，詞源同mallow.即錦葵色的，淡紫色的。

mauve

mauve: [19] Etymologically, mauve is the colour of the ‘mallow’ flower. The word was borrowed from French mauve, whose original meaning was ‘mallow’, and which was descended from Latin malva ‘mallow’. English took over malva in the Old English period as mealuwe, which has become modern English mallow. And Greek molókhē ‘mallow’, a probable relative of malva, is the ultimate source of English malachite [16].
=> malachite, mallow

mauve (n.)

purple dye, 1859, from French mauve, from Old French mauve "mallow" (13c.), from Latin malva "mallow;" the dye so called from the color of the mallow plant. Related: Mauvish.

1. All shades of mauve, lilac, lavender and purple were fashionable.

深深淺淺的各種木槿色、丁香色、熏衣草色和紫色都是流行色。

來自柯林斯例句

2. It bears clusters of mauve flowers in early summer.

初夏時節(jié)，它開出了一簇簇淡紫色的花。

來自辭典例句

3. If you shut it in glass, it would turn the glass mauve or violet.

如果你把它裝在玻璃容器里, 它會把玻璃變成紫紅色或淡紫色.

來自辭典例句

4. Pamela Tudsbury clattered away at a typewriter, in her mauve evening dress and fancy hairdo.

帕米拉·塔茨伯利穿著淡紫色晚禮服,梳著別致的發(fā)式,正在打字機上咔嗒咔嗒地打著.

來自辭典例句

5. I'm not sure black Is your colour , Capitaine. You could try mauve.

我覺得你穿黑色不好看,上校, 你該試試淡紫色.

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