puce

Example Sentences

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The discrepancy is like the scene in The Wizard of Oz when the curtain is drawn away to reveal the wrinkly, puce old fool working the levers.

From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2018

Glazes are often brash and runny, chartreuse entwined with grape or puce with orange and off-white.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2015

Shimmering first in puce, then fluttering in chartreuse, the colors of the background and the sundae evolve through many colors of the rainbow.

From Slate • Jul. 3, 2012

As messy as the characters’ lives become, the midcentury color scheme — based on puce, plum, pistachio and pumpkin — remains reassuringly tidy.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2010

“What is puce? And anyway we have not got any.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White