Difference between brownish and puce
Definitions
adjective
- of a color similar to that of wood or earth
Examples
Soldiers resemble worker termites, except that they have enlarged brownish heads and strong, well-developed jaws.
Meanwhile, the brownish-blackish gunk is drifting along the coast to the northeast, Brower said.
Nash's team used its global-positioning - satellite receiver to establish its position, and then through the brownish haze, team members plotted the azimuth and direction to a far-off enemy bunker.
Definitions
noun
- a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red
Examples
Three of the Pucelle's heavy guns fired together, their sound almost stunning Sharpe, who was going from gunport to gunport and stabbing at the French with his cutlass.
Alpha-naphthylamine, Bluish claret red; Reddish puce.
All that was needed abroad or at home was to repeat the same sentence more slowly at a puzzled auslander, if that didn't work it was polite to bellow it repeatedly while frothing at the mouth until puce.
