puce

noun
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🔊/pjuːs/
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  1. a colour between red and purple紫红色的Topics Colours and Shapesc2

puce

adjective
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🔊/pjuːs/
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  1. between red and purple in colour紫红色的
    • His face was puce with rage.他气得脸色发紫。🔊🔊
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    Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French, literally ‘flea(-colour)’, from Latin pulex, pulic-.