(n.) A color of a delicate purple, violet, or lilac.
Example Sentences:
(1) The range includes products such as lip gloss (in claret red, precious gold and velvet mauve), bath crystals and body lotions.
(2) I pull out a grape-flavoured one in bright mauve and eye Clapper’s Advanced Vaping System enviously.
(3) I feel a little bit cool until an elderly woman on a mobility scooter laughs in my face, reminding me I’m a 40-year-old man sucking on a sparkly mauve pretend cigarette.
(4) We can help by looking for this blue-with-a-hint-of-mauve butterfly (the female is more brown than blue and harder to identify) during the last weekend of Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count .
(5) Baghdadi wonders whether to start wearing a big turban, maybe mauve or even pistachio with a silver pin.
(6) Gili said this was mostly surprising because the mauve stingers were close to beaches.
(7) It wasn't long ago we were watching Milan Jovanavic and Paul Konchesky..." 5.01pm GMT "Jacob isn't it nice to see a referee in a nice sensible old-school black strip, instead of dressing up like an attention-getting circus clown in mauve or a wretched shade of yellow?"
(8) There was an Iranian woman in a wheelchair, she was about 80, wearing a little mauve cardigan, and they were yelling at her – “Arabic?
(9) The institute has detected a surge this spring in one of the most poisonous species, the mauve stinger or Pelagia noctiluca , along the coast of Catalonia and Valencia.
(10) Galbraith drew attention to the paradox of private affluence amid public squalor, citing the family that takes its mauve and cerise, air-conditioned, power-steered and power-braked car out for a drive, passes through cities that are badly paved and made hideous by litter and blighted buildings, and then picnics on exquisitely packaged food by a polluted stream.
(11) Her make-up tends to the mauve but otherwise she is all in black and white, in contrast to her life.
(12) His eyes were level with the mauve bougainvillea draped over the countertop.
(13) I was preemptively disappointed, setting out on the tandem for the mauve shadow of the hills, to know that I would in all likelihood see no newborn calves, that our adventure would have a different character to the adventure undertaken by my brother and my father.
(14) In The Spell, Alex – who has "contracted the occasional ailment of the late developer, an aversion to his own past" – recalls his horror of the country town in which he'd grown up, with its "old outfitters selling brown and mauve clothes [and] photos of fetes and beauty contests and British Legion dinners in the window of the newspaper office, which might almost have been the window of a museum".
(15) Think how good that shows our Lord to be, because what if the trees had been mauve, or electric blue?
(16) So many greys: opalescent, dove, lead, battleship, cadet, charcoal, glaucous, that greyish mauve called Mountbatten pink, medium grey, dark medium grey, Gainsborough grey, and more besides.
(17) The children's bedrooms feature retro movie posters and plain mauve bedspreads, and the grinning, tousle-haired kids are pictured playing with bespoke wooden train sets that their fathers have carved out of an oak branch taken from the back garden.
(18) 5-Hydroxyhaemopyrrole lactam, the 'mauve factor' reported in the urine of schizophrenics and porphyrics was found to inhibit electrically-stimulated contractions of guinea-pig ileum only at high concentrations (ID50 = 8.5 mM).
(19) While attempting synthesis, the young chemist, William H. Perkin, stumbled on mauve purple, the first aniline dye.
Modena
Definition:
(n.) A certain crimsonlike color.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Duchess of Cambridge, due to give birth in the next couple of weeks, will not suffer the indignities of, say, Mary of Modena in 1688, forced to give birth in front of an audience of 200 and still accused of a bit of business with bedpan and changeling.
(2) The vestibular tests with ENG, which is enclosed in the routine study of the patients of the Headache Centre of Modena University (Italy), has shown a high percentage of alterations in different tests.
(3) Eighty vaccinated cattle and 16 susceptible controls were intranasally exposed to an aerosol containing a homologous FMD challenge virus (O1 BFS, A10 Holland or C1 Detmold) or a heterologous virus (A5 Modena or C1 Modena).
(4) The aim of the present study was to examine the levels of lead and cadmium in hair, blood and teeth of children living from birth in an industrialized area near Modena.
(5) In the present paper the A.A. report data about CHCl3 exposure, intake and uptake bin five agonistic swimmers (three males and two females), members of the same sport association, and regularly attending the same indoor swimming pool in Modena.
(6) 142 children (71 males and 71 females) representing 20.8% of those aged 6-7 years living in Sassuolo (Modena) have been included in the study.
(7) Photograph: Tom Jenkins Although Panini doesn’t release sales figures due to a confidentiality agreement with Fifa, Martins can say that since February, the small factory in São Paulo has printed nine million stickers a day on its 21 machines – the one in Modena, which is bigger, has been printing over 11 million a day – and the staff on the factory floor have been working round the clock to meet the demand.
(8) The results with regard to the amount of time that nasogastric feeding as well as tracheal tube are kept and the length of the hospital stay, were compared to those ones of a similar number of consecutive cases operated at our institution (ENT Department of Modena University) before February 1990 but not rehabilitated.
(9) When friends ask him for the occasional sticker freebie, he is quite rightly indignant: “When Volkswagen releases a new model no one asks people who work there for a free car.” Panini is, as the name suggests, an Italian company, but it has had a factory near São Paulo since 1989, which provides stickers to all of South America and Latin America, while the one in Modena, Italy, attends to everyone else’s sticker needs.
(10) A retrospective study of all admissions to the University of Modena Neurological Department from 1976-1986; 51 cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) were found.
(11) ORL Modena, 1978), wherein S presses a button, within a criterion time window, to a brief episode of frequency modulation in a pure tone.
(12) Our study involves the children hospitalized from 1974 to 1984 in the First Department of Pediatrics, University of Modena.
(13) The Preventive Medicine Unit for Personnel in the USL N. 16 of Modena has conducted a study to evaluate the prevalence of subjective symptoms and professional dermatitis among nurses working in a general surgery operating theatre of the Modena "Policlinico" Hospital (36 and 41 employees were studied respectively in 1990 and 1991), before and after the installation of gas evacuators and a modification in the use of detergent and disinfectant substances.
(14) The effect of gentamycin was investigated at the University of Modena Phthisiology and Respiratory Diseases Department.
(15) The first worth is about the research into the problem of infections, in particular of viral hepatitis B, made by the Authors in the area of Modena.
(16) In view of such a kind of fluoroprophylaxis in our country the Authors considered quite interesting to effect a research about the amount of fluoride in the waters of the district of Modena.
(17) Of the 10,000 abortions performed at the Regional hospital at Modena in Italy between 1982 and 1986, 199 (2%) led to early complications.
(18) v. Portland Retail Druggists Association and De Modena v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan have helped to clarify the answer to that question.
(19) The TNB was joined by the Berlin Schaubühne, the Liège Théâtre de la Place, the Emilia Romagna foundation theatre in Modena, the Belem cultural centre in Lisbon and the University of Tampere, Finland .
(20) In order to develop a scoring system for selecting patients at high risk of organic diseases of the colon, who would need a colonoscopy or a barium enema, we conducted a study with 14 GPs in the local health care district of Modena.