Definitions for puces

puces puce

Spelling: [pyoos]
IPA: /pyus/

Puces is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in puces (cepsu).

Definitions for puces

noun

  1. a dark or brownish purple.

adjective

  1. of a dark or brownish purple.

Origin of puces

1780-90; French: literally, flea Latin pūlic-, stem of pūlex

Examples for puces

To make plum-color or puce, indigo is the dye, with a cochineal.

But the case of the inhabitant of the puce dressing-gown was an exception to the rule.

Headsman Samson, though he afterwards denied it, sells locks of the hair: fractions of the puce coat are long after worn in rings.

puce and purple pillows lay, holding golden locks of sun, piled and lifted by light breezes, the painted eider–down of sunset.

She wore a puce silk paletot, and a brown hat trimmed with black lace; an unbecoming costume for one so tall.

In puce velvet, a great trumpet-mouthed gun in his hands, he stood beefy and menacing before them.

It serves for reds and pinks, and enters into the composition of puce and lilac.

He did not use a deep purple or a puce colour in the ornaments of his dress.

They describe my heliotrope poplin as puce alpaca with a muslin frill!

The livery hoods seem finally, in 1568, to have settled down to scarlet and puce, the gowns to blue.

Word Value for puces
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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