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Puce is a colour: a dark purple that leans toward brown, like a , dried blood, or red wine that has gone a bit muddy. It is not bright purple and not quite maroon. You meet it in fashion, paint charts, and careful writing; in everyday talk people are more likely to say brownish purple. Though actually, the French name means flea colour, from Latin pulex, a flea. Some people say it was the colour of a crushed flea. That is an ugly picture, but it is why the word exists, and it explains why puce is never a clean, pretty violet. It is almost only ever a colour word.
褐紫色（偏棕的暗紫）
組成Does not split in English. From French couleur puce (flea colour), from Latin pulex (flea).
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pucenoun/pjuːs/
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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.
puceadj/pjuːs/
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Of a brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。