Noun: puce
Sample Sentences
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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:]
Nouns inflected like puce
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French couleur puce, from Latin pūlex (“flea”).
Verbs referencing "puce"
Spanish Nouns
pulga.