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Answer for the clue "Dark red or purple-brown ", 4 letters:
puce

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Usage examples of puce.

But Puce is much closer, a lot less trouble, and his cock just exactly fills me up.

Detection range, however, was only a matter of miles, and the man in the puce waistcoat, Standish knew, was at the limit of that range.

But the case of the inhabitant of the puce dressing-gown was an exception to the rule.

The flare of a wax vesta illumined the splendours of the puce dressing-gown.

Cashmore no more blenched now than he had blenched at the puce garment.

He saw that the puce dressing-gown contained a man who was at the end of his tether, and with that good nature of his which no hardships had been able to destroy, he offered to attend to the preliminary formalities.

Whether puce really qualifies at all as to being a colour, is a subject for scholars to debate upon.

The pillowcases were still puce, as were the duvet and the curtains and the carpet.

She walked hurriedly up the garden path, between the blooming puce rhododendrons, flowering puce gladioli, glorious puce sunflowers and spreading puce spruce trees and looking left and right and up and down as well, slipped behind the trellis work that hid the two puce dustbins and the garden shed, all painted puce.

Brown gave her an armful of thin, puce silk to hold, then rummaged through the pile and found a gown in green, heavily ribbed material with a quilted petticoat in ivory.

The dressing gown was puce too, and though she knew she was being absurdly childish, she cried even harder.

Who in his right mind would go into a store and ask the clerk for a puce shirt?

I had not the least intention - la, do but observe the creature in the puce satin over there!

Earl had changed his travelling dress for an evening toilet of puce velvet, with a flowered waistcoat and satin small clothes.

Encountering at first one or two stares from young bucks, Horatia felt rather conspicuous in being quite unattended, but her alarming frown stood her in good stead, and a rakish gentleman in puce satin who had taken a step in her direction retreated hastily.