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puce

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puce  (pys)
n.
A deep red to dark grayish purple.
[French (couleur) puce, flea (color), puce, from Old French, variant of pulce, flea, from Latin plex, plic-.]
puce adj.
puce [pjuːs]
n
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours)
a.  a colour varying from deep red to dark purplish-brown
b.  (as adjective) a puce carpet
[shortened from French couleur puce flea colour, from Latin pūlex flea]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.puce - a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red
brown, brownness - an orange of low brightness and saturation
Translations
puce [pjuːs]
A. N → color m castaño rojizo
B. ADJ → de color castaño rojizo; (with shame etc) → colorado
puce [ˈpjuːs] adj (= colour) → puce inv
puce
n → Braunrot nt
adj → braunrot; (fig: with rage, shame) → rot
puce [pjuːs] adj → color pulce inv
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Just look at her in the puce dress--an ambassador's wife they say she is--how her skirt bounces out from side to sides"
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
She had read in it of the crocuses which had been bought for yellow and were coming up puce, of the new parlour-maid, who had watered the ferns with essence of lemonade, of the semi-detached cottages which were ruining Summer Street, and breaking the heart of Sir Harry Otway.
A Room With A View by Forster, E. M. View in context
Elliot tittered, "but wearing puce velvet, as she does even on the hottest August day, it somehow doesn't show.
The Voyage Out by Woolf, Virginia View in context
 
 
 
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