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Dictionary: puce   (pyūs) pronunciation
 
n.

A deep red to dark grayish purple.

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

puce puce adj.
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WordNet: puce
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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red


 
Wikipedia: Puce
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Puce
About these coordinatesAbout these coordinates
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #CC8899
RGBB (r, g, b) (204, 136, 153)
HSV (h, s, v) (345°, 33%, 80%)
Source [Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Puce (often misspelled as "puse","peuse" or "peuce") is a color that is defined as ranging from reddish-brown to purplish-brown, with the latter being the more widely-accepted definition found in reputable sources. Puce is a shade of red. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) dates the use of "puce" (in couleur puce) from 1787. The word comes from French; puce literally means "flea", as the usual flea coloration is either dark reddish-brown or dark purplish-brown.

According to available sources, the etymology of "puce" is French "puce" from Old French "pulce", from Latin "pūlic-", "pūlex".




 
Translations: Puce
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - rødbrun, blommefarvet
n. - rødbrun farve

Nederlands (Dutch)
donkerbruin

Français (French)
adj. - rouge brun, cramoisi
n. - rouge brun

Deutsch (German)
n. - Flohbraun
adj. - flohbraun

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - καστανέρυθρο (χρώμα)
adj. - καστανέρυθρος

Italiano (Italian)
colore pulce, di colore pulce

Português (Portuguese)
n. - marrom avermelhado (m)
adj. - roxo

Русский (Russian)
красновато-ко- ричневый

Español (Spanish)
adj. - de color pardo rojizo
n. - pardo rojizo

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - rödbrunt
adj. - rödbrun

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
深褐色的, 深褐色

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 深褐色的
n. - 深褐色

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 암갈색의
n. - 암갈색

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 暗褐色
adj. - 暗褐色の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) لون بني (صفه) بني اللون‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮אדום כהה, חום-ארגמן‬
n. - ‮צבע אדום כהה או חום-ארגמן‬


 
 
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