
[French (couleur) puce, flea (color), puce, from Old French, variant of pulce, flea, from Latin pūlex, pūlic-.]
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Puce (often misspelled as "puse", "peuse" or "peuce") is a color that is defined as ranging from light grayish red-violet (the version shown at right) to medium to dark purplish-brown, with the latter being the more widely accepted definition found in reputable sources. The Oxford English Dictionary dates the use of "puce" (in couleur puce) from 1787. The first recorded use of puce as a color name was in the 14th century, in the French language.[1]
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Puce is the French word for flea. The color is said to be the color of the bloodstains remaining on linen or bedsheets even after being laundered from a flea's droppings or after a flea has been killed.
Bedbugs leave the same color stains from their droppings as part of their nightly wanderings on the surfaces of bedsheets, pillowcases, and blankets. The appearance of these small colored stains on ones bedding even after being laundered is one way to diagnose that one's bedroom has been invaded by bedbugs.
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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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