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PUCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does puce mean? 

PUCE (noun)
  The noun PUCE has 1 sense:

1. a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark redplay

  Familiarity information: PUCE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PUCE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("puce" is a kind of...):

brown; brownness (an orange of low brightness and saturation)


 Context examples 


I remember too, Miss Andrews drank tea with us that evening, and wore her puce-coloured sarsenet; and she looked so heavenly that I thought your brother must certainly fall in love with her; I could not sleep a wink all right for thinking of it.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)



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