According to the Oxford English Dictionary it is flea-color. A purple brown or brownish purple. They recommend not forgetting to take your rich twilied sarcentet pelisse of a puce color incase later you need it while riding off into the purple puce of twlight.
Ellen Silverman
> I KNOW I have asked this question before and never got a straight
> answer...just what color exactly IS PUCE????
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> Linda Woods
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> Visit our student's web art gallery at St.John's School
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> www.sjs.org
> click on "Stories of SJS," click on "Arts Stories," click on Linda
> Woods' name. View artwork by Lower, and Middle School students as well
> as our art archives.
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