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Puce
Puce is generally considered to be a shade of pale brownish-purple.
Puce comes from the French puce, or "flea-coloured". Sometimes it is correlated with a shade of deep red, prompting speculation it might alternately refer to the colour of a squashed flea.
The mystery behind this color involves its use in English as a sort of nonsensical-sounding color name, much like chartreuse, a yellowish-green color.
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