This article is about the colour. For the school PUCE, see Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador.

Puce is a brownish purple colour. The term comes from the French couleur puce, literally meaning "flea colour".[2]

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 favourite colour of Marie Antoinette, though there are no portraits of her wearing it.[3][4][5]

Puce was also a popular fashion colour in 19th-century Paris. In his novel Nana, Émile Zola describes a woman "dressed in a dark gown of an equivocal colour, somewhere between puce and goose shit."[6] In Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Mademoiselle Baptistine wears "a gown of puce-coloured silk, of the fashion of 1806, which she had purchased at that date in Paris, and which had lasted ever since."[7]

Variations of puce

Puce (ISCC-NBS)

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)

The color box to the right shows the color called puce in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color;[9] the color puce is displayed on page 37, Plate 7, Color Sample H4.

Puce (Pourpre color list)

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)

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.[13]

See also

References

  1. ^ 99colors.net
  2. ^ "puce". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/OED/3451789277. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
  3. ^ St. Clair, Kassia (24 October 2017). The Secret Lives of Color. Penguin. ISBN 978-1-5247-0494-0. Archived from the original on 14 September 2024. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  4. ^ Kelleher, Katy (24 October 2017). "The Sexy-Gross Story of Puce". The Awl. Archived from the original on 14 September 2024. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  5. ^ Under The Moonlight (14 July 2020). "Puce Was Once The Height Of 18th Century French Fashion For A Second". Under The Moonlight. Archived from the original on 14 September 2024. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Hugo, Victor (1887). Les Misérables. Translated by Hapgood, Isabel F. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. p. 67.
  8. ^ ISCC-NBS[usurped]
  9. ^ Maerz and Paul (1930). A Dictionary of Color. New York: McGraw-Hill.
  10. ^ Pourpre.com
  11. ^ "Pantone TPX". Archived from the original on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
  12. ^ Type the word "Puce" into the indicated window on the Pantone Color Finder and the color appears.
  13. ^ "Pantone TPX Pantone Color Finder--Type the word "Puce" into the indicated window on the Pantone Color Finder and the color appears:". Archived from the original on 10 September 2015. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puce
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