puce
- n a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red
- In Ionesco's scenario, just before the planet blows up, a man sitting in a caf turns puce and explodes.
- In the 1970s, innovations in polyesters brought dullish tones like avocado and puce into fashion.
- Damselflies in lurid shades of aqua and puce hovered lazily beside us.