My answer: It has nothing to do with where you live. Thinking puce is a greenish color is always an error. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. What color is "puce", and why do different people give radically different answers purplish vs greenish? Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 5 months ago.
Active 4 years, 1 month ago. Viewed k times. Wikipedia : Puce On the difference in interpretation: Yahoo : What does the color puce look like? Improve this question. Community Bot 1. Taj Moore Taj Moore 1, 3 3 gold badges 13 13 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. It's interesting, because I can find a lot of people claiming that puce green is a colour that exists, but I can't find many usage examples - this Google nGram doesn't show 'puce green' at all, and these examples from vocabulary.
The discussion on Wikipedia verigies what you're saying under the section for "puce green": en. I haven't been able to find anything definitive regarding the origin of the green definition, but I have found a couple of fascinating articles explicitly detailing its history as purple: books. This is why we should all use HTML color codes and forget these confusing words to describe colors. If you just said " fe63e9", we'd know exactly what color you meant. Hugo, I've known for a long time that I was confused about my definition of puce.
I assumed it was green, looked it up and found it was brown-purple, but found today people from England telling me they remember it as green.
So, it's mostly just been confusing and I finally had to do some research. Show 4 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. I suppose that would mean the dress in question is puce-on-puce? Lastly, I typed "Puce dress" into Google's search engine, and then clicked Shopping ; this is what showed up on my screen: The conspicuously un-puce dress in the middle is being sold as used , so it might disappear from the search query results in a few days. Improve this answer. I love the sawdonkey story.
And it turns out somebody agreed with the definition: youtube. That reminds me of how a lot of folks think droll means stupid instead of funny, or that Nimrod means dolt instead of mighty hunter. I was at least a teenager before I realised that the word is idyllic and not as I'd always blindly copied my dad idylleric. Add a comment. In the epistolary novel The Sylph , published anonymously by Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, the protagonist appropriately describes confusion with new and unfamiliar colour names: I have had a thousand patterns of silks brought me to make choice and such colours as yet never appeared in a rainbow.
Fifty others, equally unintelligible, he ran off with the utmost facility. I've no idea why some people think puce is greenish, but I did find this from an The Medical and Physical Journal : In general, imperial tea is deep green, green tea is puce green, hyson is blueish green, bohea is yellowish green, peko is almost black, gunpowder tea is greyish green, souchong is reddish.
I expect the confusion is much older, but puce has been mistaken at least in : I said. And in One interesting one regards the color "puce. It's hard to quantify just how many people don't know what puce is, but when a Marvel Comics artist polled her Twitter followers about puce a few months ago, 57 percent wrongly thought it was a shade of green.
Some Mandela folks have an elaborate conspiracy theory that involves a second color as well: they remember chartreuse a vivid yellow-green as being a reddish-purple color, and wonder if puce and chartreuse might have switched places in some kind of chromatic dimensional vortex. Wikipedia notes an medical journal that describes a type of tea as "puce green," but in context, it's clear that that the tea being described is green with overtones of puce.
I hate to say it, but to my mind the likeliest avenue for people assuming that "puce" is a pale, pea-soupy green is the word's resemblance to "puke.
We don't just switch them to their phonetically closest bodily fluid! Puce is actually named for a different fluid entirely: it comes to us from the French couleur puce , meaning "flea-colored," probably for the dried-blood color of squished fleas.
Quick Quiz: What famous woman wore so much puce in the summer of that the color became all the rage in Paris? Puce gets shout-outs in Monsters Inc. The wrong puce is pea soup green and it seems to be a visual malapropism of British origins, and frankly, I think this green-puce is bullshit and should be ignored like the Johnny-come-lately it is. Unfortunately for those of us who desire exactitude while hypocritically chaffing under its rigors, puce is still somewhat of an unsettled color.
You can find many different puces in the paint color and hex code worlds. Sometimes puce veers closer to mauve , while others it appears downright brown and occasionally it appears as a pale boy belly-flop pink. Personally, I think we should bring back the original French naming system for these varieties of puce.
Flea-thigh, flea-belly, flea-back, new-flea, old-flea, dead-flea, live-flea—each one with its own tint and tone. The slim volume is mainly filled with lovingly named colors inspired by nature and his paint box in equal measures , yet every now and then, a bodily function sneaks in. Peach blossom red, rose red, and then: arterial blood red.
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