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unusual facts about mauve



City of the Violet Crown

:In Geoffrey Trease's novel The Crown of Violet, the name is explained as referring to the mauve-tinted marble of the Acropolis hill.

Gnathothlibus fijiensis

It is similar to Gnathothlibus eras, Gnathothlibus saccoi and Gnathothlibus vanuatuensis but distinguishable by the distinctive olive green ground colour of the forewing upperside and the mauve outer edge to the tegula in the males.

Ross Eccles

What a Draw, by Mauve Quigley, ICROSS Celebrity Art Auction, Sunday Mirror, November 10, 2002

Thomas Beer

Beer was best known for his biographies of Stephen Crane (1923) and Mark Hanna (1929), as well as his study of American manners during the 1890s, The Mauve Decade (1926).

Thorsen House

The fireplace in the living room is surrounded with mauve Grueby tiles.

Wavis O'Shave

His video for the remake of his earlier song Mauve Shoes are Awful was a nominated at the NME Shockwaves Video awards in 2009.

Zolochiv Castle

The Chinese Palace, a diminutive mauve-colored rotunda flanked by one-storey wings, was added later in the century as Jan III's gift to his French-born wife, Marysieńka.


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