puce
/pjuːs/
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Northern Ireland/ˈpjʉs/
puce noun: a brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
Noun
puce (countable and uncountable, plural puces)
- A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
- For blacks, browns, puces, and violets, the acetate or tartrate of iron must be employed.1881, Alvin Wood Chase, Dr. Chase's Recipes Or, Information for Everybody, page 596
- "Laws can be changed," said Fudge savagely. "Of course they can," said Dumbledore, inclining his head. "And you certainly seem to be making many changes, Cornelius. Why, in the few short weeks since I was asked to leave the Wizengamot, it has already become the practice to hold a full criminal...2003, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter: The Order of the Phoenix, page 149
Adjective
Forms of puce
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | puces |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | pucer |
| superlative | pucest |
Origin of puce
From French couleur puce, from Latin pūlex (“flea”).
Words that rhyme with puce
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- deduce
- sluice
- unloose
- educe
- effuse
- introduce
- mousse
- produce
- recluse
- reproduce
- Rus
- seduce
- spruce
- excuse
- moose
- traduce
- transduce
- vamoose
- Zeus
- abduce
- abstruse
- adduce
- cruse
- diffuse
- disuse
- doos
- douce
- overproduce
- papoose
- reuse
- truce
- unsluice
- Al-Andalus
- ashy-headed goose
- boose
- burnoose
- caduce
- ceruse
- charlotte russe
- Emden goose
- fog juice
- hoose
- ill-use
- incuse
- luce
- misuse
- noose
- obstruse
Questions about puce
- What does puce mean?
- Puce means a brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
- What part of speech is puce?
- Puce can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce puce?
- Puce is pronounced /pjuːs/.
- What is the plural of puce?
- The plural of puce is puces.
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