Mauvish

Kanye West known for being at the forefront of fashion, here he goes all out with a mauvish pink velvet jacket and baby pink turtle neck to match. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Her wavy hair, which was a surprising mauvish white, was swept back off her face. ❋ Defonseca, Misha (2005)

The conspicuous flowers are mauvish-pink, purple or greenish-white in colour, about 2.5 cm in length and borne on stout axilliary peduncles. ❋ Unknown (1987)

The process left his eyelids and the pouches under his eyes mauvish. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1935)

Tall, slim, and elegant of appearance, Narcisse Habert had a clear complexion, with eyes of a bluish, almost mauvish, hue, a fair frizzy beard, and long curling fair hair cut short over the forehead in the ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

Pierre's stupefaction, however, increased as he listened to Narcisse, whose somewhat studied elegance, whose curly hair cut in the Florentine fashion, and whose blue, mauvish eyes paling with enthusiasm he now for the first time remarked. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

But what to make of 'The Dapper Transvestite' pulling up his stockings, or the narrator charmed by the subject of 'Mandrill' - "he was mauvish in the chops/and delicious"? ❋ Abi Bliss (2010)

The unbecoming mauvish-pink that belongs to red hair and freckles suffused Jeremy’s cheeks and mounted to his brow. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1966)