puce
Americanadjective
noun
noun
Etymology
Origin of puce
1780–90; < French: literally, flea < Latin pūlic-, stem of pūlex
Vocabulary lists containing puce
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Example Sentences
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Glazes are often brash and runny, chartreuse entwined with grape or puce with orange and off-white.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2015
He returned puce with anger, pickling in his own disappointment.
From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2015
Shimmering first in puce, then fluttering in chartreuse, the colors of the background and the sundae evolve through many colors of the rainbow.
From Slate • Jul. 3, 2012
As messy as the characters’ lives become, the midcentury color scheme — based on puce, plum, pistachio and pumpkin — remains reassuringly tidy.
From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2010
Uncle Vernon stopped, his fist still raised, his face an ugly puce.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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