[pbs] Color terms/mauve

Susan Hayek susanann at sbcglobal.net
Sun Sep 19 02:02:04 EDT 2004


>tend to cringe a little, for instance, when an author describes a 
>flower as "mauve," one of the most ill-defined English color terms.

**And just out of curiosity, how do people on this list describe 
'mauve'. I can see what I think of as 'mauve' in my mind's eye, but 
to describe it....


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susan, who is.....
owned by Jasper & Schubert the Standard Poodles, Gracie the 
Rhodesian, Pup-Quiz the Basenji and their Basenji brother, Jones.... 
on the North Coast of CA, USA
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