puce
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At 6:38 a.m. on Tuesday, Piers Morgan, his face puce and contorted with anger, stormed off the set of his own live breakfast show, seemingly forever.
From Slate • Mar. 12, 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
As a little girl, she found the sight of liver turning from puce to grey-green in the pan "thrilling".
From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 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
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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