Mauve. What a blasé sort of word. What is it, anyway? It’s the name of a color. How does one describe the color Mauve? It fits in with the purple family but it can also drift toward the pinks. My research into this rather bizarre subject has led me to discover that the color didn’t exist before 1856 – weird, huh? To think that with our world of colors today, galore in all hues and tones, that a color hasn’t always been around. But it’s true. Purple existed but not mauve.