puce
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As Shrope examined an unfinished puce skirt pinned onto a mannequin, he pointed to a 1964 drawing sitting on the counter for comparison.
From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2021
Glazes are often brash and runny, chartreuse entwined with grape or puce with orange and off-white.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2015
Television cameras were always catching him behaving badly, losing his temper, ejecting his chewing gum, sourly pointing at his watch or turning puce as he blasted some innocent match official.
From The Guardian • May 11, 2013
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
Vernon Dursley, whose mustache was quite as bushy as Dumbledore’s, though black, and who was wearing a puce dressing gown, was staring at the visitor as though he could not believe his tiny eyes.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
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