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puce, a. (n.)|pjuːs|
[a. F. puce n.:—L. pūlex, -icem a flea; couleur puce flea-colour (17th c.).]
a. attrib. or as adj. (orig. puce colour): Of a flea-colour; purple brown, or brownish purple.
1787Best Angling (ed. 2) 83 Dip a feather in aqua fortis, put it on the ash,..and it will make it a cinnamon, or rather a puce, or flea colour. 1791Hamilton tr. Berthollet's Dyeing I. i. i. ii. 32 Colours inclining to red on the one hand and black on the other, such as mordoré and puce colour. 1820Chron. in Ann. Reg. 197/2 A rich twilled sarcenet pelisse, of a peuce colour. 1834Mrs. Carlyle Lett. I. 10 The old black gown (which was dyed puce for me at Dumfries). 1893J. Ashby-Sterry Naughty Girl ix. 79 His puce silk suit, his muslin cravat.
b. As n. = puce colour.
1882Garden 16 Sept. 260/1 Blooms of..rich dark puce, suffused with maroon. 1897Daily News 25 June 2/6 The mountains had all put on..the purple puce of twilight. 1900F. H. O'F. in Lond. Let. 26 Jan. 133/1 Varying shades..from palest peach to deepest puce.
c. Comb. puce-coloured adj.
1812Sir H. Davy Chem. Philos. 212 The puce-coloured oxide of lead. 1874Garrod & Baxter Mat. Med. 410 Cochineal yields when crushed a puce-coloured powder. |