Mauve (rhymes with "grove"; from the French form of Malva "mallow") is a pale lavender-lilac color, one of many in the range of purples. Mauve is more grey and more blue than a pale tint of magenta would be. Many pale wildflowers called "blue" are actually mauve. Sometimes mauve can be considered a dirty pink or a shade of purple. Mauve can also be described as pale violet. Mauveine, the first aniline dye Mauve was first named in 1856. Chemist Sir William Henry Perkin, then eighteen, was attemp… (More on Mauve)