Puce

Puce

Puce

Color

This article is about the color. For the school PUCE, see Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.

Puce is a brownish purple color. The term comes from the French couleur puce, literally meaning "flea color".[1]

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Puce became popular in the late 18th century in France. It appeared in clothing at the court of Louis XVI, and was said to be a favorite color of Marie Antoinette, though there are no portraits of her wearing it.[2][3][4]

Puce was also a popular fashion color in 19th-century Paris. In one of his novels, Émile Zola describes a woman "dressed in a dark gown of an equivocal color, somewhere between puce and goose shit."[5] In Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Mademoiselle Baptistine wears "a gown of puce-colored silk, of the fashion of 1806, which she had purchased at that date in Paris, and which had lasted ever since."[6]

Variations of puce

Puce (ISCC-NBS)

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The color to the right is the color called puce in the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955). Since this color has a hue code of 353, it is a slightly purplish red.

Puce (Maerz and Paul)

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The color box to the right shows the color called puce in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color;[7] the color puce is displayed on page 37, Plate 7, Color Sample H4.

Puce (Pourpre color list)

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At right is the color called puce in the Pourpre.com color list, a color list widely popular in France. This is the original puce, from which all other tones of puce ultimately derive.[citation needed]

Puce (Pantone)

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The color at right is called puce in the Pantone color list.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #19-1518 TPX—Puce.[9]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "puce". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/OED/3451789277. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
  2. [2]
    St. Clair, Kassia (2017-10-24). The Secret Lives of Color. Penguin. ISBN 978-1-5247-0494-0.
  3. [3]
    Kelleher, Katy (2017-10-24). "The Sexy-Gross Story of Puce". The Awl. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  4. [4]
    Under The Moonlight (2020-07-14). "Puce Was Once The Height Of 18th Century French Fashion For A Second". Under The Moonlight. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  5. [5]
    Zola, Émile (1880). Nana. Paris: G. Charpentier. p. 45. Vêtue d'une robe sombre de couleur indécise, entre le puce et le caca d'oie.
  6. [6]
    Hugo, Victor (1887). Les Misérables. Translated by Hapgood, Isabel F. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. p. 67.
  7. [7]
    Maerz and Paul (1930). A Dictionary of Color. New York: McGraw-Hill.
  8. [8]
    Type the word "Puce" into the indicated window on the Pantone Color Finder and the color appears.
  9. [9]
    Pantone TPX Pantone Color Finder--Type the word "Puce" into the indicated window on the Pantone Color Finder and the color appears:
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