Crossword-Solution: MAUVE 5 letters, 104 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Mauve n. A color of a delicate purple, violet, or lilac.

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MAUVE anagram AEVUM

We have 104 clues for the answer “MAUVE”

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"Never trust a woman who wears ___" (line from "The Picture of Dorian Gray") 1 answer
"Pink trying to be purple," per Whistler 1 answer
"The ___ Decade." 1 answer
"___ is just pink trying to be purple": Whistler 1 answer
A pale purple colour 1 answer
Color close to lavender 1 answer
Color first obtained in 1856. 1 answer
Color for the 1890's 1 answer
Color of a whole decade 1 answer
Color of the 1890's 1 answer
Color similar to lilac 1 answer
Colorful decade 1 answer
Dye obtained from aniline 1 answer
First synthetic dye 1 answer
Gray-violet 1 answer
Grayish violet 1 answer
Grayish-violet 1 answer
Hazy purple 1 answer
Lavender relative 1 answer
Light violet 1 answer
Lilac's cousin 1 answer
Mallow purple 1 answer
Moderate purple hue 1 answer
Mulberry cousin 1 answer
Pale bluish-purple. 1 answer
Pale purplish 1 answer
Perkin's purple 1 answer
Purple hue associated with the 1890s 1 answer
Purple shade on Qatar's flag 1 answer
Purple-gray 1 answer
Purple? A bit lighter 1 answer
Result of trying to invent a malaria cure 1 answer
Shade a lot like lilac 1 answer
Shade akin to lilac 1 answer
Shade close to lilac 1 answer
Shade for Prince 1 answer
Shade similar to lilac 1 answer
Strong purple 1 answer
The ___ Decade (1890's) 1 answer
The ___ Decade (Gay Nineties) 1 answer
Trendy '80s color 1 answer
Victorian shade 1 answer
Violet or lilac 1 answer
Word for a decade 1 answer
a moderate purple 1 answer
of a pale to moderate greyish violet color 1 answer
shade Purplish hue 1 answer
Purple dye 2 answers
Lilac relative 2 answers
Lilac color 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with MAUVE (5)

They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.” “I shall have such fun,” said Peter, with eye on Wendy.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
The situation became grim and pallid indeed, when I caught the expressions “garden-party” and “my mauve tulle,” and realized that they both referred to that very afternoon.
Dream Days Kenneth Grahame 2008
One lost the contour of faces and figures--indeed, any effect of line whatever--and there was only the color of bodices past counting, the shimmer of fabrics soft and firm, silky and sheer: red, mauve, pink, blue, lilac, purple, ecru, rose, yellow, cream, and white, all the colors that an impressionist finds in a sunlit landscape, with here and there the dead shadow of a frock coat.
The Troll Garden and Selected Stories Willa Cather 1995
Sometimes she would run home alone through the twilight, her heels scrunching the snow, her whole being filled with a vague and unchildish sadness and disquiet as she faced the tender rose, and orange, and mauve, and pale lemon of the winter sunset.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 2008
All light shades of blue and pink and yellow and mauve were there dominated by the glaring white sun.
Desert Gold Zane Grey 1996

Quotes with MAUVE (3)

Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain.(Mind the latter, how it’s written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But b…
Gerard Nolst Trenite Drop your Foreign Accent
She had been struck by the figure of a woman's back in a mirror. She stopped and looked. The dress the figure wore was the color called ashes of roses, and Ada stood, held in place by a sharp stitch of envy or th woman's dress and the fine shape of her back and her thick dark hair and the sense of assurance she seemed to evidence in her very posture. Then Ada took a step forward, and the other woman did too, and Ada realized that it was herself she was admiring, the mirror ha…
Charles Frazier Cold Mountain
Unkar Delta at Mile 73The layers of brick red sandstone, siltstone, and mudstone of the Dox formation deposited a billion years ago, erode easily, giving the landscape an open, rolling character very different that the narrow, limestone walled canyon upstream, both in lithology and color, fully fitting Van Dyke’s description of “raspberry-red color, tempered with a what-not of mauve, heliotrope, and violet.” Sediments flowing in from the west formed deltas, floodplains, and t…
Ann Zwinger Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 163 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).