mauve-blue

1. 1.

   of blue tinged with mauve

   Similarchromatic

Questions about mauve-blue

What does mauve-blue mean?

mauve-blue means "of blue tinged with mauve".

How many syllables are in mauve-blue?

mauve-blue has 3 syllables and divides as mau-ve--blue under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is mauve-blue a common word?

mauve-blue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.