puce
Murky plum shade
Puce is a dark brownish-purple or purplish-brown color, somewhere between maroon and plum.
The word comes from the French for flea, supposedly describing the color of a flea or flea-crushed bloodstain.
Puce appears mostly in fashion and interior design contexts: a puce velvet settee, The bridesmaids wore puce.
Grayish pale violet
- auberginePurple nightshade vegetable
- eggplantPurple edible nightshade fruit
- plumSoft stone fruit
- burgundyDeep purplish red
maroon · wine · mulberry · beetroot · magenta · heather · taupe · dusty rose
Quality from past eras
- retroEvoking recent past
- VictorianOf a prim era
- EdwardianOf early twentieth-century Britain
- old-fashionedBelonging to earlier times
dated · antique · quaint · subdued · muted · understated · unfashionable · dowdy
mauve
Grayish pale violet
burgundy · maroon · wine · mulberry · beetroot · magenta · heather · taupe · dusty rose · reddish-brown
vintage
Quality from past eras
old-fashioned · dated · antique · quaint · subdued · muted · understated · unfashionable · dowdy · frumpy
nauseated
Feeling urge to vomit
livid · discolored · bilious · greenish · pallid · unwell · repulsed · revolted
- insectespapillon, bourdon, termite, mite, chenille
- brown shadesbrown, tan, beige, taupe, sepia
- purplespurple, violet, magenta, plum, lavender
- Reddish-Brownreddish brown, russet, sienna, burnt sienna, auburn
- redsred, scarlet, crimson, ruby, cherry red
- historic pigmentsochre, vermilion, ultramarine, indigo, madder