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Puce vs Pauce - What's the difference?

puce | pauce |

As adjectives the difference between puce and pauce

is that puce is of a brownish-purple color. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, deep red to dark grayish purple while pauce is of or pertaining to paucity; being scarce or insufficient.

As a noun puce

is a brownish-purple color. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, deep red to dark grayish purple.

puce

English

(wikipedia puce)

Noun

(en noun)
  • a brownish-purple color. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, deep red to dark grayish purple.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a brownish-purple color. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, deep red to dark grayish purple.
  • See also

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    pauce

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to paucity; being scarce or insufficient.
  • The documentation was very pauce .
  • * 1966. T?hoku Daigaku. Science Reports , v.37-38 1965-1967, T?hoku University: 1966, Page 208,
  • ...although the foraminiferal content is pauce .
  • * 1983. Academy of Political Science (U.S.) ''Political Science Quarterly; New York, v.98 (1983-84), Page 521,
  • Comparable information for the Soviets is pauce ; but the authors' observations are stimulating and plausible.
  • * 1997. Tony Whitten, Roehayat Emon Soeriaatmadja, Suraya A. Afiff, Surya Affif. The Ecology of Java and Bali , Oxford University Press: 1997, Page 600,
  • So, although it is often asserted that monocultures lead to increased risks of disease and pest attack, the evidence is pauce .

    Usage notes

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