| mauve | A colour of a delicate purple, violet, or lilac. <chemistry> Mauve aniline, a dyestuff produced artificially by the oxidation of commercial aniline, and the first discovered of the so-called coal-tar, or aniline, dyes. It consists of the sulphate of mauveine, and is a dark brown or bronze amorphous powder, which dissolves to a beatiful purple colour. Synonym: aniline purple, violine, etc. Origin: F, mallow, L. Malva. So named from the similarity of the colour to that of the petals of common mallow, Malva sylvestris. See Mallow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| mauveine | <chemistry> An artificial organic base, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, and valuable for the dyestuffs it forms. Alternative forms: mauvine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |