puce
(noun) a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red
Source: WordNet® 3.1
puce (countable and uncountable, plural puces)
A brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
puce (comparative more puce, superlative most puce)
Of a brownish-purple color, sometimes more or less deep red or grayish.
Source: Wiktionary
Puce, a. Etym: [F., fr. puce a flea, L. pulex, pulicis.]
Definition: Of a dark brown or brownish purple color.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
