Examples of puce in a Sentence
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The answer’s right there, and the game of The Receptionist is to dress it up in business casual and smother it in puce carpeting and bad wallpaper.
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 8 May 2026
No Paris trip is complete without a visit to les puces.
—Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2026
But this week, at least, the most reliable method for inducing puce-faced rage in the Brussels diplomatic corps has been to utter the word Spitzenkandidaten.
—The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
Tired of painting test areas of a wall with endless shades of puce?
—Jay Samit, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2017
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Sara Holdren, Vulture, 8 May 2026
No Paris trip is complete without a visit to les puces.
—Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2026
But this week, at least, the most reliable method for inducing puce-faced rage in the Brussels diplomatic corps has been to utter the word Spitzenkandidaten.
—The Economist, 22 Feb. 2018
Tired of painting test areas of a wall with endless shades of puce?
—Jay Samit, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2017
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“Puce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puce. Accessed 26 May. 2026.
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