Synonyms for puce
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
| Spell : pyoos |
| Phonetic Transcription : pyus |
Top 10 synonyms for puce Other synonyms for the word puce
- auburn
- beige
- bister
- bittersweet
- bloodshot
- blooming
- blush
- brick
- bronze
- buff
- burgundy
- burnt sienna
- carmine
- cerise
- cherry
- chestnut
- chocolate
- cinnamon
- claret
- cocoa
- coffee
- copper
- dahlia
- drab
- dust
- ecru
- fawn
- florid
- flushed
- fuchsia
- garnet
- geranium
- ginger
- hazel
- healthy
- henna
- inflamed
- infrared
- khaki
- magenta
- mahogany
- nut
- ochre
- pink
- puce
- roseate
- rosy
- rubicund
- ruby
- ruddy
- rufescent
- russet
- rust
- salmon
- sanguine
- scarlet
- sepia
- snuff-colored
- sorrel
- tan
- tawny
- terra-cotta
- titian
- toast
- umber
- vermilion
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
- 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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