Talk:Puce

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Contents 1 Expansion 2 Huh? 3 The "Santa Claus" movie reference 4 hex triplet 5 modern day usage 6 "Puce Green" 7 Incorrect Colour Reference

[edit] Expansion

Instead of moving this to Wiktionary, someone could just expand this like the other color articles...

Agreed

All right, what I did was copied the basic template for a color from another article and added it inside a remark (<!-- -->) JD 03:28, Mar 15, 2005 (UTC)

Should the RBG for this be #961E42 it seems to match the description better then the current one. Lidden 18:15, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Huh?

"The mystery behind this colour involves its use in English as a sort of nonsensical-sounding colour name, much like chartreuse, a yellowish-green colour." <-- Does this sentence make little sense to anybody else but me? What mystery is being talked about here? And if people do use it in this fasion, maybe someone should give an example? Kidicarus222 05:48, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

I just removed that. It really didn't make any sense- first, I don't know where this "mystery" idea comes from, and second, does any color have a name that makes sense? Does green look "green"? I honestly can't believe this sentence was in the article for so long. -- Kicking222 03:12, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The "Santa Claus" movie reference

...Nuh-uh, it was not the magical element that made reindeer fly. What made reindeer fly was the magical element in lollipops which the elf (Dudley Moore) chose to color puce after that color was suggested by B.Z. the evil toy-manufacturer's assistant, Howser. The magical element which made reindeer fly was some kind of gold dust -- which was also then added to the puce colored lollipops which BZ gave for free to all the children in the world, to take over Christmas ("Santa Claus is finished!"). So now ya'll know. :-) 16:47, 26 August 2006 (CET)

[edit] hex triplet

sorry no account yet, I'll get one soon. Anyways, the hex code does not match with the RGB code, maybe triplet means that both digits have to be the same but I doubt it cuz that's kinda counterintuitive. Not sure which is correct, just though tI'd point it out.--70.137.159.77 07:05, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] modern day usage

In my experience, Puce has become somewhat of the one color that nobody knows about. This article briefly touches on it but I think can be more direct about it. Of course, it's my experience, has anyone else say, have a teacher quiz you on what color puce is? --70.137.159.77 07:14, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Puce Green"

Did no one else grow up with the color "puce green"? In the usage I grew up with, it's an unpleasant pale brownish yellow-green, much like mashed peas. Some might also call it "baby sh*t green". Does anyone know where this usage came from. A google search shows it to me a very common usage. It warrants mentioning certainly, but I'm not sure what to say about it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Natureguy1980 (talk • contribs) 06:59, 10 December 2006 (UTC).

I've always thought puce was a pukey orange color. Not sure where I got that idea from!

I kinda had thought the same thing, since I remember reading a book where this girl dyed her orange shoes baby blue, and ended up with "puce", so I assumed it was some brownish-orange puke color. 129.64.141.43 16:55, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't know what all the regional variations are, but there is no such color as puce green. "Puke" (note the K) can be used to qualify other colors as sickly-appearing (e.g. "puke green" or "puke orange"). "Puce" has a long history in the world of fashion and design that has always been in the purple spectrum. Alki (talk) 05:00, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Incorrect Colour Reference

I find it quite annoying that someone would be so careless as to assign a colour in the rosy pink range to an article describing the colour "puce". This is extremely inaccurate, and is a disservice to those who are trying to find out what this colour truly entails.

Go to Dictionary.com and search on "puce" - the responses talk about either purplish-brown or a range from dark red to purplish brown. An older hard copy dictionary I have gives "Flea-colour, purple-brown".

Look at the etymology:

1787, from Fr. puce "flea," from L. pucilem (nom. pulex) "flea," cognate with Skt. plusih, Gk. psylla, O.C.S. blucha, Lith. blusa, Arm. lu "flea." It is the color of a flea.

Source: Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper

Every other reference I have seen, whether in print or showing a colour, refers to a shade in the dark red-brown or purple-brown category.

Although I could edit this page easily to remove the word references to the colour pink, I don't know how to edit the colour references. Would someone who has this knowledge please correct this page???

Nanaimo12 00:16, 5 November 2007 (UTC)