Editing Mauve (section)

===Opera mauve===
{{Infobox color
|title=Opera mauve
|hex=B784A7
|source=[[ISCC-NBS]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-o.htm|title=Retsof online version of ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Colo(u)r Names - Oa through Oz|date=November 22, 2012|access-date=January 9, 2025|archive-date=November 22, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121122220323/http://tx4.us/nbs/nbs-o.htm|url-status=usurped}}</ref>
|isccname=Light reddish purple}}
The color displayed at right is '''opera mauve'''.

The first recorded use of ''opera mauve'' as a color name in [[English language|English]] was in 1927.<ref>Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill Page 200; Color Sample page 107 Plate 42 Color Sample H5--Opera Mauve</ref>
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