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Definition of puce adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

puce

adjective
 
/pjuːs/
 
/pjuːs/
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  1. between red and purple in colour
    • His face was puce with rage.
    Topics Colours and Shapesc2
    Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French, literally ‘flea(-colour)’, from Latin pulex, pulic-.
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