Usually means: Dark red or brownish color.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. puce: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. puce: Merriam-Webster
  3. puce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. puce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. puce: Collins English Dictionary
  6. puce: Vocabulary.com
  7. puce: Wordnik
  8. puce: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. puce: Wiktionary
  10. puce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. puce: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. puce: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Puce, puce: Dictionary.com
  14. puce: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Puce: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Puce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. puce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. puce: Rhymezone
  19. Puce: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. puce: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. PUCE, puce: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. puce: FreeDictionary.org
  23. puce: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. puce: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. puce: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. puce: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. puce: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PUCE: Acronym Finder
  2. puce: A Word A Day

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. puce: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. puce: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See puces as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
adjective:  Of a brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.

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