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the color so accidental it kicked off an entire chemical empire by mistake.
means A pale purple color, somewhere between lilac and lavender, with a soft pinkish-violet cast.
from From French mauve, the name of the mallow plant (Latin malva), whose flowers wear just this shade. The word leapt into fame in the 1850s when a young chemist, while trying to synthesize quinine, accidentally produced the first aniline dye — a brilliant purple he named 'mauveine,' which set off the modern synthetic-dye industry and a Victorian craze for the color.
- lab accident
- Discovered in 1856 by a teen chasing malaria cure
- royal fever
- Queen Victoria wore it, Europe lost its mind
- first synthetic dye
- Born from coal tar, of all things
- its decade
- The 1890s were nicknamed the Mauve Decade
- pronunciation war
- Rhymes with stove, despite everyone's confident guessing
mauve dye discovery — william henry perkin synthesized first synthetic dye in 1856, accidentally creating mauve from aniline
mauve decade — 1890s cultural period in britain characterized by aesthetic movement, named for the color's popularity in art and design