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puce
Puce (variant spellings: "puse", "peuse" or "peuce") is a dark red or purple brown color,〔Oxford English Dictionaries on-line〕 a brownish purple〔Webster's New World Dictionary, Third College Edition: "a brownish purple."〕〔Random House College Dictionary: "a dark or brownish purple"〕 or a dark reddish brown.〔"Brun rouge assez foncé." ''Le Petit Robert'' (1988).〕
|Puce is variously defined as a dark red or purple brown, a brownish purple, or a dark reddish brown.
==Etymology==
Puce is the French word for ''flea''. The color is said to be the color of the bloodstains remaining on linen or bedsheets, even after being laundered, from a flea's droppings or after a flea has been crushed.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) dates the first English use of "puce" as a color to 1787.〔''Oxford English Dictionary'' See entry on Puce〕 The name comes from the French word ''puce'', or flea, which comes from the Latin words for flea, ''pulicem'' or ''pulex''. According to the ''Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology'', the first French use of puce as a color name, meaning "flea-color," dates to the 17th century.〔''The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology'', (1966) Oxford University Press〕 A different source dates the first French use of ''puce'' as a color name to the 14th century.〔Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 202; Color Sample of Puce: Page 37 Plate 7 Color Sample H4--the color sample shown as ''puce'' in Maerz & Paul is a tone of puce halfway between the U.S. and U.K. versions of puce: Puce (Maerz & Paul)〕
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