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puce

[pyoos] / pjus /




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Her apartment is immaculate, decorated in shades of puce and lemon-yellow.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2017

Glazes are often brash and runny, chartreuse entwined with grape or puce with orange and off-white.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2015

Shimmering first in puce, then fluttering in chartreuse, the colors of the background and the sundae evolve through many colors of the rainbow.

From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2012

As a little girl, she found the sight of liver turning from puce to grey-green in the pan "thrilling".

From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2012

Vernon Dursley, whose mustache was quite as bushy as Dumbledore’s, though black, and who was wearing a puce dressing gown, was staring at the visitor as though he could not believe his tiny eyes.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

The 35mm cinematography, by Anderson’s longtime collaborator Robert Elswit, is a symphony in murky puces and greens, the nauseating tones of a permanently harshed mellow.

From Slate ● Dec. 11, 2014


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