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Sentence Examples The print is floral with shades of green, brown, and mauve on a cream background. As it wore on to midnight, a lowe in mauve and gold crept and slipped and wavered upon the sky. Groundcover plantings of smoky mauve heathers come alive in spring with surrounding sweeps of cobalt blue grape hyacinths. The mauve plush carpeting felt good as my toes wriggled back and forth in it. Occasionally the dyes, such as magenta, mauve, the bright blues, or Metternich green, initiated the fashion. Lilith walked with grace and ease down the short corridor, looking around in revulsion at the peeling mauve wallpaper and creaking old floor. Ten years of girls' boarding schools decked out in mauve tunics, jumper, mauve tie and mauve bloomers gave me a certain antipathy to the colour. Flower blossoms are creamy white with mauve caps and are frugally placed up the stem above glossy green foliage. The door slides open, and Daphne gladly exchanges the confines of the mirrored elevator for the wide white and mauve hallway. Meanwhile, I'll continue to grow it as a background shrub and cut its aromatic mauve branches for flower arrangements. A subsequent visit confirmed it was not in the ocher-beige layer, but embedded in the underlying coat of pale mauve paint. The canine youth stared up at the high roof and decorative mauve trim of the pale blue structure. We hijacked the best seats in the house, the front row of the balcony, where I waved my multicolored boa and mauve lace covered hand at him. Their counterparts are the more poetically named lacecaps, whose papery bracts circle a mauve to pink head of minuscule flowers. Roxie began uncapping a mauve colored lip gloss, sliding the small spongy tip across her lips. They applied the mauve paint as evenly as possible, so that the thickness of the paint would not affect the amount of smalt it held. Luxurious satin corsets in gun-metal grey, deep mauve, and black mix with slim-fitting trousers and ground-sweeping skirts. Light to medium shades of brunette would do well with mauve pinks or pinks that have a dusty or brown undertone. Some time later found the pair in Ie's chambers, sitting on a simple divan colored a subtle mauve, discussing times gone by. Liam rolled up his denim jacket sleeve and revealed a scar about eight inches in length, crooked and jagged and raised and a deep mauve color. Show More Sentences Crimson, lemon yellow, Naples yellow, emerald, Veronese green, mauve and the cadmiums were all 19th-century inventions. She wore a mauve gown of rich velvet, with gold tulips sewn intricately on the bodice. Whether or not your opting for patterns, delve into colors like mauve, burgundy, yellow, rust, light blue, or even salmon. It was painted metallic mauve and had skirts over the wheel wells and dice sponges hanging from the rearview mirror. The baroque linear swirls and variably sized round icons on the wall were cut from adhesive vinyl in glimmering teal, mauve and purple. Pinky mauve or white, the dainty nodding flowers are set off by the beautifully marbled dark green leaves. She wore close fitting leggings, deep mauve in color, and a long, loose-fitting blouse that was gathered and belted at her waist. There are 32 to collect, in various shades of cream, yellow, bronze, mauve and purple. This was purified and dried and when digested with spirits of wine gave the mauve dye. Beneath the Cape's rugged cliff faces, washed by blue, mauve and aquamarine seas, migrating humpback whales can be heard breathing at sunrise. She was wearing a mauve suit, sharp black heels, and her jet black hair was tied in a bun. The actinomorphic, tubular flowers of both species are pale blue to mauve, with epipetalous anthers. Urban areas and areas where growth will occur are shown in mauve, pink or tawny brown, depending on the map. One piece strapless delustered satin, A-line, small train, embroidered in mauve and silver butterfly design. In addition to basic white, pink, and yellow, there are now mauve and purple versions and any number of lined, spotted, and bicolored flowers. Walls, blinds and tablecloths were in misty shades of lavender blue and mauve. Patches of mauve flowering grey leaved tree lupins added a splash of colour to the grassy slopes. For the record I scoffed a tiny tub of blackcurrant so purple it sent my teeth mauve, and another of gooseberry and elderflower. They advised the removal of older, wooden icons and statues to a nearby day chapel, and created a muted background of bronze and mauve colour. The mauve jacket she wore with white trousers set off her lightly tanned skin and her sage green eyes. Show More Sentences This was a bed-less but mattress-strewn upstairs room already filled with a giggling band of musicians who wore mauve hats at rakish angles. Sunset cast a soft mauve, pink and orange hue on the tips of the snow clad mountains. The color photograph is softly lit and the image's color palette ranges from a cool gray-blue to mauve to beige. One example is the story of the clarification of the chemical structure of Perkin's mauve, the first synthetic dyestuff. The 1856 discovery of the first synthetic aniline dye, mauve, marked a new era in textile dyeing. The first synthetic dye, mauve, was prepared in 1856 by the English chemist William Henry Perkin. In fact, the cloth made of cotton, silk, and jute has lovely shades of mauve, brown, blue, and white. Shell pink, raspberry pink, purple, mauve and turquoise are just some of the colours that will dominate. The creative use of mauve does nothing for our confidence in our short-term future. What you take from this time as your individual gift will be different as puce and mauve. Today he sports a particularly vivid mauve cummerbund and a matching beret over his usual black coffee-house togs. The mauve glow of the sky outside tugged at Danielle's heart even as she steeled herself. The magnificent January King has steely blue leaves and a tight head tinged with mauve. In the late afternoon light the colours shift constantly, from pink to blood red to mauve. The cranesbills and storksbills have pink, red, mauve or blue five-petalled flowers. Typical of country cottage gardens, cool colours such as pale blue, soft pink and mauve provide clouds of colour that are restful and tranquil. The wind was blowing through her fancy curtained window and a light breeze hit her long brown hair as it dangled off the bed hitting the pale purple and mauve comforter. A giant mauve rug that covered the entire floor cushioned her feet. In 1856 a colour was discovered, mauve, our first synthetic dye. Wool lace blouses with dolman sleeves topped slim matching skirts in shades of pea green and mauve. Show More Sentences Those tall pillars of mingled lilac, mauve, purple and white flowers rising above square planters are spectacular, as are the matching hanging baskets here and there. In the other, similarly patterned oils, the lighter colors of Evoe 1 are replaced with an acidic yellow or a lime green and the deep blue with either a purple or a mauve. The palette was gentle and pretty, focusing on rose pinks, lavenders, dusky mauve, mint, faun and pale lemon. My younger sister Jeri, in her mauve bridesmaid dress and punk make-up she refused to wash off, handed out photocopied programs to the arriving guests. We stood sipping under Nikos's walnut tree, cracking nuts and watching Psiloritis flush from pale orange to deep mauve in the light of the setting sun. From my two polythene bags, come a lacy mauve top, sarong and underwear, cleansers, make-up, Durex and books on self-hypnosis and one on healthy eating and fasting. The village houses are done up in pale gray and mauve and preside over lawns so neat and green they look like carpeting. Its common name, star cluster, refers to the myriad little florets that combine to form the main flower, in shades of pink, mauve, white and cerise. In the past week, the fall in temperature has turned the leaves and stems of the dogwood a glorious crimson, making it a marvellous foil for mauve Michaelmas daisies. It is my all-time favourite because it is so dark and it's an excellent year-round plant offering good-looking foliage, tiny mauve flowers and persistent black berries. The men, yours truly included, wore white tuxedos with mauve cummerbunds. In the glass, it is a lovely deep and brooding mauve colour. The opening look combined a light turquoise, slinky evening gown with a mauve headpiece. The beautifully spun yarns can still vibrate with strong primary reds, yellows and blues, into the more sophisticated variations of mauve, delicate pinks and maroons. There were the mornings when the world was shrouded in a mist which turned subtly mauve, and then as the sun broke through, the mountainsides all around flamed orange-red. She was wearing a mauve blouse, a matching mauve bordered sador and a plain muga mekhela. Urban Decay Limited Edition Lipstick in Jailbait Brown tinged with mauve this is ideal for the day as is avoids shimmer and goes for colour. The least cornified, young cells stain violet or blue, more mature cells mauve and the most cornified, old and dying cells stain red. Globe thistle produces prickly mauve spheres on silver stems ranging from 6 to 15 feet in height, depending on the species. The other day there were commas and red admirals in attendance on its pretty mauve flowers. Show More Sentences Scientists say high water temperatures and lack of rain have attracted unusually large numbers of Pelagia noctiluca, commonly known as the mauve stinger. Lily of the Nile is the most popular local herbaceous perennial, whose nodding inflorescences include dozens of mauve blue florets per flower stalk. Rocks in the lower part consist in general of mauve sandstones, siltstones and greyly green siltstones interbedded with a few intercalated mud boulder horizons. Toadflax or baby snapdragon is the most charming of the bunch, occurring in solid or bicolor varieties of pink, rose, mauve, red, burgundy and gold. Models, some of them wearing blindfolds in shimmering chiffon, sported pantsuits in neon organza, or asymmetrical draped goddess gowns in dusty shades of mauve and pink. There was one looking proud in a mauve suit, and another in a yellow shirt, his hip popped out in a jaunty contrapposto, his lips stretched wide in an enigmatic smile. Examples from Classical Literature They were there almost over our heads, sprinkling us with their blue, pink, and mauve drops. He gets his clothes from dear lollypop's London tailor, and wears a mauve or magenta tie when he rides out to see the hounds. The moving tidal water was grass-green, save where dusked with long, mauve shadows. His suit was mauve with purple piping, and his wide, square, saggy face was florid. The minutest trace of digitalin moistened with sulphuric and treated with bromine vapour gives a rose colour, turning to mauve. The little steamer was feeling her cautious way up a river of dull silver between banks of taupe and mauve. He turned his head painfully, and now saw that his windows were surrounded by mauve fronds of wisteria. On her head was a Panama hat with a scarf of mauve silk tied loosely round it and hanging down her back in two long ends. Above the wainscotting, the walls and ceiling are finished in plain plaster with walls painted mauve and the ceiling white. It came to be the chic and proper thing to appear at them in shades of mauve or purple. Yet it was not dear, either, and there was no specific charge for that silver-braided dress-coat of a mauve color. They crackled against the soft mauve ribbons of her underbodice. Juve showed this sheet of mauve letter paper to his listeners. She quickly caught sight of a mauve sheet of paper on the blotting-pad. She set Richard down on the mauve soil and collapsed beside him. Gradually the blue color faded to mauve and then to a brilliant crimson. Other colour options include a soft mauve, restful sage green and dove grey. The sky beyond, above Salamis, was all grass-green and mauve. Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons. I believe they have got a mauve Hungarian band that plays mauve Hungarian music. Show More Sentences This will grow into a large shrub with big felty leaves and beautiful lace cap flowers, pure white on the outside surrounding a mauve centre. With these thrilling words he rushed away, and flinging open the door of the mauve salon, was about to enter, when he received. Beaufort met them in a girlish cloud of mauve muslin and floating veils. His freckled paw shot up over Purvis's shoulder, mauve lightning came from his ring, a red flash from his revolver, and shrieks from the women as the reverberations died away. The marshes on the landward side were mauve with lavender blossom, In the distance, the red-tiled cottages nestled deep among a background of green trees and rising fields. However, the gamble, which Paddy Power claim would have cost them pounds 15,000, went awry as the Queen plumped for mauve, the general 4-1 second favourite. Find more words! 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