puce

Example Sentences

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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

The discrepancy is like the scene in The Wizard of Oz when the curtain is drawn away to reveal the wrinkly, puce old fool working the levers.

From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2018

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 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

I thought about colors I hated: ecru, puce, lavender, beige and black.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou