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What color is puce, and why do different people give radically . . . EDIT II: To answer the question, people may associate puce with green because they confuse "puce" with "puke " This article , which asserts that Louis XVI coined "puce" to describe the color of one of Marie-Antoinette's dresses (which, truth be told, is a sort of pukey green) may lend credence to this theory
orthography - The spelling ui and the pronunciation uː in juice . . . Neither of those spellings has any particular issue with representing the sound of the word: -uce and -use are used in the spelling of some words that rhyme with juice, such as puce, spruce, truce, reduce, use, abuse Your suggestion of influence from other words spelled with "ui" seems the best explanation to me
Yellow versus orange - English Language Usage Stack Exchange 13 Orange is one of the newest colors, in that in most languages, it was still considered merely a shade of a different color (red or yellow) up until recently [1] My favorite example of this is the pigment red lead, which isn't red at all, but bright, almost-neon "construction orange" And of course the hair color of most redheads isn't red
What is the word for bright colors such as green? Pink, mauve, and baby blue are typical pastel colors However, since you mentioned "bright" colors, I suspect you are referring to neons: Funny, only the green seems neon-y The orange is nearly cinnabar, the pink isn’t hot, and the blue is cyan They are sometimes called day-glo or fluorescent
Do people mean *flea market* is like the dirty market which has a lot . . . If you are squeamish, you may translate this Flea Market, though Puce means a word that rhymes with House, not Sea A Lou—excuse me—Flea Market is an education of a kind, for it is a study in what some Parisians consider still wearable When clothes in this neighbourhood come to a condition where they are no longer serviceable, it would
Its color is brown vs It is brown in color describing nouns And the reason for that gratuitous inaudible apostrophe is that its in Its color is a possessive pronoun, whereas it's in It's brown is a contraction of it and the predicate adjective auxiliary verb is
What is the etymology of “business” and “busyness”? According to OEtmD, business is the modern spelling of the Old English bisignes “care, anxiety, occupation,” from bisig “careful, anxious, busy, occupied, diligent” The meaning of this word eventually evolved to “occupation” and then “trade” Thoreau may have been the one to coin the modern word busyness to mean “being busy
She kicked me in the sac or sack? Reference is to the testicles I have also learned (in researching this particular question) that there is apparently a sport called disc-golf (which really shouldn't surprise me because I went to a hippie college where the only sport was "freestyle frisbee" and the school colors were heliotrope and puce, which are two very similar shades of purple) and the purveyors of a
Why do we say that an obscene joke is off-color? Here is the definition of off color in Chapman Kipfer, Dictionary of American Slang, Third Edition (1995): off color adj phr by 1875 Somewhat salacious; risqué; =BLUE: a couple of off-color jokes Some of his observations were a bit off color
why do some people call green peppers mangoes? 8 It appears that: “When mangoes were first imported to the American colonies in the 17th century, they had to be pickled due to lack of refrigeration Other fruits were also pickled and came to be called ‘mangoes’, especially bell peppers, and by the 18th century, the word ‘mango’ became a verb meaning “to pickle ’” green