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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mauv·an·i·line n. Chem. See Mauve aniline, under Mauve.
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Mauve n.  A color of a delicate purple, violet, or lilac.
 Mauve aniline Chem., a dyestuff produced artificially by the oxidation of commercial aniline, and the first discovered of the so-called coal-tar, or aniline, dyes.  It consists of the sulphate of mauveïne, and is a dark brown or bronze amorphous powder, which dissolves to a beatiful purple color.  Called also aniline purple, violine, Perkin's mauve, etc.
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