Puce
Puce noun - A color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red.
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Subverted in The Movie of The Musical which had all the costume ball dancers in black and white, rendering lyrics like "Splash of puce/Flash of red" completely moot.
Source: Gorgeous Period Dress -
Red Shirt: The main characters team gets the in-universe designation of Team Puce (all teams are named after colors, puce is reddish-brown), someone somewhere (probably Valeria) wanted to tell them something about their life expectancy.
Source: Comic Book / Runaways (2015)
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Red and Puce. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/puce/red
Puce & Red. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/puce/red>.
Red or Puce. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/puce/red.
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