MAUVE in a Sentence

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Example sentences for MAUVE, such as:

1. Black hair clumsily tucked under a mauve straw hat which would have suited a spinster.
2. One window of excellent clothes for men, interspersed with collars of floral pique which showed mauve daisies on a saffron ground.

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 Meanings and Examples of MAUVE
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mauve
 n.  pale purple colour; pale purple aniline dye;
 a.  of pale purple colour;
Classic Sentence:
1  One window of excellent clothes for men, interspersed with collars of floral pique which showed mauve daisies on a saffron ground.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  So brilliant was the snow-glare that when she entered the house she saw the door-knobs, the newspaper on the table, every white surface as dazzling mauve, and her head was dizzy in the pyrotechnic dimness.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  The thick grass beside the track, coarse and prickly with many burnings, hid canary-yellow buttercups and the mauve petals and woolly sage-green coats of the pasque flowers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  Black hair clumsily tucked under a mauve straw hat which would have suited a spinster.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  Michaelis came: in summer, in a pale-coloured suit and white suede gloves, with mauve orchids for Connie, very lovely, and Act I was a great success.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
6  Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
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