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Puce vs Pruce - What's the difference?

puce | pruce |

As nouns the difference between puce and pruce

is that puce is a brownish-purple color. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, deep red to dark grayish purple while pruce is prussian leather.

As an adjective puce

is of 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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    pruce

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Prussian leather
  • * 1700 , John Dryden, Fables, Ancient and Modern: Palamon and Arcite , lines 30–31:
    • Some for Defence would Leathern Bucklers use, / Of folded Hides; and others Shields of Pruce .

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