puce

• n. 深褐色；紫褐色
• adj. 深褐色的；紫褐色的
• n. (Puce)人名；(意)普切

來自法語puce,跳蚤，來自拉丁語pulicem,跳蚤，來自PIE*plou,跳蚤，詞源同flea.可能進一步來自PIE*pleu,流動，飛，詞源同flow,fly.後該詞用於指跳蚤的顏色或跳蚤的便粒顏色，碰到水會溶解變成血紅色。詞義演變比較carmine,kermes.

puce

puce: [18] Puce is etymologically ‘fleacoloured’. It was borrowed from French puce ‘flea’, a descendant of Latin pūlex ‘flea’, which goes back to the same Indo-European source as English flea [OE].
=> flea

puce (n.)

"brownish-purple," 1787, from French puce "flea-color; flea," from Latin pucilem (nominative pulex) "flea," from PIE *plou- "flea" (cognates: Sanskrit plusih, Greek psylla, Old Church Slavonic blucha, Lithuanian blusa, Armenian lu "flea"). That it could be generally recognized as a color seems a testimony to our ancestors' intimacy with vermin.

1. His face was puce with rage.

他氣得臉色發紫。

來自《權威詞典》

2. The man's face was puce with rage.

那人的臉都氣紫了.

來自互聯網

3. I want puce gloves and green boots.

我要戴深褐色的手套,穿綠色長統靴.

來自互聯網