puce
Americanadjective
noun
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of puce
1780–90; < French: literally, flea < Latin pūlic-, stem of pūlex
Vocabulary lists containing puce
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At 6:38 a.m. on Tuesday, Piers Morgan, his face puce and contorted with anger, stormed off the set of his own live breakfast show, seemingly forever.
From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2021
Her apartment is immaculate, decorated in shades of puce and lemon-yellow.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2017
Glazes are often brash and runny, chartreuse entwined with grape or puce with orange and off-white.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2015
Warming to its theme, the statement continued blethering indignantly, drawing itself up to its full height as it went a worrying shade of pompous puce.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2010
Vernon Dursley, whose mustache was quite as bushy as Dumbledore’s, though black, and who was wearing a puce dressing gown, was staring at the visitor as though he could not believe his tiny eyes.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
The 35mm cinematography, by Anderson’s longtime collaborator Robert Elswit, is a symphony in murky puces and greens, the nauseating tones of a permanently harshed mellow.
From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2014
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