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Synonyms for puce


Grammar : Adj, noun
Spell : pyoos
Phonetic Transcription : pyus

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Définition of puce

Origin :
  • "brownish-purple," 1787, from French puce "flea-color; flea," from Latin pucilem (nominative pulex) "flea," from PIE *plou- "flea" (cf. Sanskrit plusih, Greek psylla, Old Church Slavonic blucha, Lithuanian blusa, Armenian lu "flea"). That it could be generally recognized as a color seems a testimony to our ancestors' intimacy with vermin.
  • As in brown : adj dark, burnished color
  • As in red : noun color of blood; shade resembling such a color
Example sentences :
  • It serves for reds and pinks, and enters into the composition of puce and lilac.
  • Extract from : « A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines » by Andrew Ure
  • He did not use a deep purple or a puce colour in the ornaments of his dress.
  • Extract from : « A History of Chinese Literature » by Herbert A. Giles
  • They describe my heliotrope poplin as puce alpaca with a muslin frill!
  • Extract from : « Mr. Punch in Wig and Gown » by Various
  • To make plum-color or puce, indigo is the dye, with a cochineal.
  • Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 » by Various
  • But the case of the inhabitant of the puce dressing-gown was an exception to the rule.
  • Extract from : « Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days » by Arnold Bennett
  • The livery hoods seem finally, in 1568, to have settled down to scarlet and puce, the gowns to blue.
  • Extract from : « Old and New London » by Walter Thornbury
  • Puce and purple pillows lay, holding golden locks of sun, piled and lifted by light breezes, the painted eider–down of sunset.
  • Extract from : « Cradock Nowell, Vol. 3 (of 3) » by Richard Doddridge Blackmore
  • Headsman Samson, though he afterwards denied it, sells locks of the hair: fractions of the puce coat are long after worn in rings.
  • Extract from : « A Wanderer in Paris » by E. V. Lucas
  • In puce velvet, a great trumpet-mouthed gun in his hands, he stood beefy and menacing before them.
  • Extract from : « The Buttoned Sky » by Geoff St. Reynard
  • She wore a puce silk paletot, and a brown hat trimmed with black lace; an unbecoming costume for one so tall.
  • Extract from : « Trevlyn Hold » by Mrs. Henry Wood
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