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Puce
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Hex triplet
#CC8899
sRGBB (r, g, b)
(204, 136, 153)
HSV (h, s, v)
(345°, 33%, 80%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)
(64, 43, 356°)
Source
99colors.net
ISCC–NBS descriptor
Dark pink
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Puce is a brownish purple color. The term comes from the French couleur puce, literally meaning "flea color".[1]
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]
^"puce". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/OED/3451789277. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
^St. Clair, Kassia (2017-10-24). The Secret Lives of Color. Penguin. ISBN 978-1-5247-0494-0.
^Kelleher, Katy (2017-10-24). "The Sexy-Gross Story of Puce". The Awl. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
^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.
^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.
^Hugo, Victor (1887). Les Misérables. Translated by Hapgood, Isabel F. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. p. 67.
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