| 单词 | puce colour |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspuce colour 1. puce colour: a dark purple brown or brownish purple colour. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > purplish brown raisin1764 puce colour1778 lavender-brown1813 1778 Williamson's Liverpool Advertiser 27 Nov. It is a loose robe, of puce colour, cuffed and collared with white-sattin. 1786 Daily Universal Reg. 11 Feb. 3/2 Lady Maria Finch—plain white satin robe, and coat of the same, richly embroidered in stripes, in puce colour and gold, ornamented with roses. 1791 W. Hamilton tr. C.-L. Berthollet Elements Art of 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. 1820 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 197/2 A rich twilled sarcenet pelisse, of a peuce colour. 1852 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 142 467 On trying other pale glasses, I found one of a puce colour. 1907 Burlington Mag. Dec. 170/2 The ‘azure’..is rendered by a nondescript puce colour. 1935 Times 11 Jan. 10/4 Handsomely engraved and printed in a rich puce colour. < as lemmas |
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