Crossword clues for puce
puce
- Purple hue
- Purple color
- Color similar to cranberry
- Purplish color
- A color purple
- Reddish brown color
- Grayish purple
- Relative of sepia
- Purplish-brown color
- Purplish colour
- Plum color
- Deep reddish purple
- Deep red to brownish purple
- Dark red or brownish-purple color
- Dark purplish-brown to dark red
- Dark purplish brown
- Coveted shade in bottle collecting
- Color that means "flea" in French
- Color akin to eggplant
- Color akin to cranberry
- Brownish-purple color
- Brownish purple hue
- Purplish brown hue
- Purple shade
- Dark red hue
- Color close to cranberry
- Purplish red
- One of two school colors (along with heliotrope) of New York's Purchase College
- Dark purple color
- Purplish shade
- A color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red
- Red color
- Eggplant color
- Color also called "eureka red"
- Shade of red that means "flea"
- Eureka red
- Color whose name is French for "flea"
- Purple-brown hue
- Purple-brown colour
- Dark red or purple-brown
- Shade of purple
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puce \Puce\, a. [F., fr. puce a flea, L. pulex, pulicis.] Of a dark brown or brownish purple color.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"brownish-purple," 1787, from French puce "flea-color; flea," from Latin pucilem (nominative pulex) "flea," from PIE *plou- "flea" (cognates: 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.
Wiktionary
a. Of a brownish-purple color. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, deep red to dark grayish purple. n. a brownish-purple color. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, deep red to dark grayish purple.
WordNet
n. a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red
Wikipedia
Puče is a village in the City Municipality of Koper in the Littoral region of Slovenia near the border with Croatia.
A small church in the settlement is dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel and belongs to the Parish of Koštabona.
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.