pale_lavender colors

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In literature, pale lavender is often deployed as a subtle yet evocative hue that imbues both living and inanimate subjects with a delicate, refined quality. The color appears in descriptions of garments—such as frocks, dresses, gloves, and accessories—that suggest understated elegance and a wistful air, as seen in the pretty print frock [1], the graceful Shetland shawl [2], and the satin gown [3] or gloves [4]. Pale lavender also graces natural settings and decorative details, from the gentle blossoms of sea verbena [5] to the distant peak bathed in the soft light of dusk [6]. In these varied contexts, authors use pale lavender not simply as a visual marker but as a motif that accentuates beauty, fragility, and a quiet poise in both character and scene.

She put on the pretty pale lavender print frock that Aunt Sophia had decided she was to wear, and went downstairs.
— from Girls of the Forest by L. T. Meade
A pale lavender Shetland shawl is wrapped about her.
— from Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda M. Douglas
The old lady was wearing a pale lavender satin gown, with a lace scarf wound about her white hair and framing her still pretty pink and white face.
— from Good Old Anna by Marie Belloc Lowndes
It was a glove—a gentleman's glove, of pale lavender kid—small in size for a masculine glove, and bearing upon it the evidence of the cleaner's art.
— from Birds of Prey by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
A bunch of pale lavender sea verbena she had gathered nearer the shore, she dropped in her mother's lap.
— from The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines by Margaret Vandercook
The sun was setting, turning to clear red and pale lavender a distant peak that then merged with the dusk, one could not tell when nor how.
— from The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert by Honoré Morrow

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