Puce

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  • noun. A deep red to dark grayish purple.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Purple-brown; reddish-brown; of a flea-color.
  • noun. A purple-brown or reddish-brown color.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of a dark brown or brownish purple color.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a brownish-purple color. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, deep red to dark grayish purple.
  • adjective. Of a brownish-purple color. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, deep red to dark grayish purple.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red
  • Word Usage
    "We should all be grateful for our honest friends; the ones who tell us hard truths, like that we have something stuck in our teeth and that puce is not a color anyone should wear."
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