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.
双语例句
1. His face was puce with rage.
他气得脸色发紫。
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2. The man's face was puce with rage.
那人的脸都气紫了.
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3. I want puce gloves and green boots.
我要戴深褐色的手套,穿绿色长统靴.
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英英释意
1. a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red
实用场景例句
His face was puce with rage.
他气得脸色发紫。
牛津词典
...Mrs Carstairs, a large, solid, round-faced woman in puce and black lace.
