rose-mauve

1. 1.

   of mauve tinged with rose

   Similarchromatic

Questions about rose-mauve

What does rose-mauve mean?

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

How many syllables are in rose-mauve?

rose-mauve has 3 syllables and divides as ro-se--mauve 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 rose-mauve a common word?

rose-mauve 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.