Puce Definition

pyo͝os
noun
Brownish purple.
Webster's New World
adjective
Of the color puce.
Webster's New World

Of a brownish-purple color. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, deep red to dark grayish purple.

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Other Word Forms of Puce

Noun

Singular:
puce
Plural:
puces

Origin of Puce

  • French (couleur) puce flea (color), puce from Old French variant of pulce flea from Latin pūlex pūlic-

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French couleur puce (“flea-colored"), from Latin pÅ«lex (“flea").

    From Wiktionary

Puce Sentence Examples

  • Grown men turn puce, pass out and Red Cross medics rush to their aid.

  • In colour the sides of the face are puce, and the neck and most of the body purplish, but the buttocks and upper part of both fore and hind limbs are transversely barred with black and white, while their lower portion is mainly white with black fetlock-rings, and in the front pair a vertical black stripe on the anterior surface.

  • Lead dioxide, Pb0 2, also known as "puce oxide," occurs in nature as the mineral plattnerite, and may be most conveniently prepared by heating mixed solutions of lead acetate and bleaching powder until the original precipitate blackens.

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Words Starting With

PPUPUC

Words Ending With

ECEUCE

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Words Starting With P and Ending With E

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