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puce a. a colour varying from deep red to dark purplish-brown b. (as adjective): a puce carpet How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Just look at her in the puce dress--an ambassador's wife they say she is--how her skirt bounces out from side to sides" She had read in it of the crocuses which had been bought for yellow and were coming up puce, of the new parlour-maid, who had watered the ferns with essence of lemonade, of the semi-detached cottages which were ruining Summer Street, and breaking the heart of Sir Harry Otway. Elliot tittered, "but wearing puce velvet, as she does even on the hottest August day, it somehow doesn't show. |
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