| 单词 | puce-coloured |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspuce-coloured 2. puce-coloured: that is of puce colour. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [adjective] > brownish purple puce1787 puce-coloured1790 1790 Times 19 Jan. 2/6 At the Drawing-Room, and at the Ball a crimson blue and puce coloured striped velvet dress coat. 1812 H. Davy Elements Chem. Philos. 212 The puce-coloured oxide of lead. a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) I. xv. 283 I remember too, Miss Andrews drank tea with us that evening, and wore her puce-coloured sarsenet. View more context for this quotation 1874 A. B. Garrod & E. B. Baxter Essentials Materia Medica (ed. 4) 410 Cochineal yields when crushed a puce-coloured powder. 1940 Burlington Mag. Sept. 87/2 The gentleman..seems by his dark, full-bottomed wig and suit of puce-coloured velvet, to belong to an earlier age. 2005 Cosmopolitan Aug. 88/2 Vibrators have been known to actually fly across the departure-lounge floor,..only to be picked up by staff and returned to the puce-coloured proprietor. < as lemmas |
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