List of synonyms from "publicize" to synonyms from "puissance"
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Definition of the day : « puce »
- As in brown : adj dark, burnished color
- As in red : noun color of blood; shade resembling such a color
- It serves for reds and pinks, and enters into the composition of puce and lilac.
- Extract from : « A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines » by Andrew Ure
- He did not use a deep purple or a puce colour in the ornaments of his dress.
- Extract from : « A History of Chinese Literature » by Herbert A. Giles
- They describe my heliotrope poplin as puce alpaca with a muslin frill!
- Extract from : « Mr. Punch in Wig and Gown » by Various
- To make plum-color or puce, indigo is the dye, with a cochineal.
- Extract from : « The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 » by Various
- But the case of the inhabitant of the puce dressing-gown was an exception to the rule.
- Extract from : « Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days » by Arnold Bennett
- The livery hoods seem finally, in 1568, to have settled down to scarlet and puce, the gowns to blue.
- Extract from : « Old and New London » by Walter Thornbury
- Puce and purple pillows lay, holding golden locks of sun, piled and lifted by light breezes, the painted eider–down of sunset.
- Extract from : « Cradock Nowell, Vol. 3 (of 3) » by Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Headsman Samson, though he afterwards denied it, sells locks of the hair: fractions of the puce coat are long after worn in rings.
- Extract from : « A Wanderer in Paris » by E. V. Lucas
- In puce velvet, a great trumpet-mouthed gun in his hands, he stood beefy and menacing before them.
- Extract from : « The Buttoned Sky » by Geoff St. Reynard
- She wore a puce silk paletot, and a brown hat trimmed with black lace; an unbecoming costume for one so tall.
- Extract from : « Trevlyn Hold » by Mrs. Henry Wood