et ceteras
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An Accidental Invention – The Evolution of the Color Mauve
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.
razz matazz and all that jazz
If you can, try to remember the first time you saw a butterfly. You were probably very young, so you may not remember exactly, but you probably gasped. And pointed. And then it’s likely you smiled. You maybe even took off trailing after it, trying to get closer a look at this amazing, flitting speck of color as it “come-hithering-ly” enticed you across the lawn, teasing you with its freedom. Well, this still happens to me every time I see a butterfly. I gasp. I point. I smile.