Mauve: A Brief History
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Hello everyone, and welcome back to another look at a quick colour history - this week, we’re looking at Mauve. The colour is named for the mallow flower, which, surprise surprise, translates to mauve in French.
Mauve first popped up as a colour around 1796, at least according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but it was rarely used before 1859, when te…