How To Use Puce In A Sentence
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The medieval French word pucelle referred to a young adolescent girl or a virgin, although this comes from a slang term for virginity puce (= flea) ".
Pharyngula
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Left is the only other known drawing of La pucelle during her lifetime, made by the notary Clément de Fauquemberque in a ledger margin on the day that the news arrived in Paris of the French victory at Orleans.
Archive 2008-04-13
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For this occasion, she shows herself dressed in a puce silk dress with a ruffled lace edging.
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Dark liver or puce is a major fault.
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Early regular mobilisation of the prepuce after surgery ensures an excellent functional and cosmetic result.
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Mrs. Mahathy's face turned a beautiful puce color and her finger rose shakily towards the door.
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She stood impassively on the shoreline in a very unflattering puce bikini that was five sizes too small for her.
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'Les faits, pourtraict et iugement de Jeanne d'Arc, dicte la Pucelle d'Orleans (avec le texte latin).'
Joan of Arc
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Immediately behind the external urethral orifice it forms a small secondary reduplication, attached along the bottom of a depressed median raphé, which extends from the meatus to the neck; this fold is termed the frenulum of the prepuce.
XI. Splanchnology. 3c. 5. The Penis
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At the curb below stood a dyspeptically stuffed limousine, guarded by two men in puce liveries.
The Nest Builder
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Sixteen Hollis had seen Chief Milligan angry before, but never like this - puce with rage, spittle flying.
AMAGANSETT
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It is possible that this could have delivered the required comedy, but it is said elsewhere that the young girl, far from wincing at her depucelage, immediately asked her somewhat spent husband, "Can we do it again?
How Stanley Kubrick Met His Waterloo
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The Jewish operator, after snipping off the foreskin, rips up the prepuce with his sharp thumb-nails so that the external cutis does not retract far from the internal; and the wound, when healed, shows a narrow ring of cicatrice.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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In La Puce, the topographical prospects, or views, include the female body as well as the city.
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The man's face was puce with rage.
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Pour into a jug and leave to cool; do not refrigerate as the syrup might crystallise and lose its fabulous puce clarity.
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Some of the parliamentarians turned puce with passion in their speeches, but they didn't seem to be hurling insults at each other or constantly trying to put each other down.
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Red is the archeus, or principal colour in the tertiary _russet_; enters subordinately into the two other tertiaries, _citrine_ and _olive_; goes largely into the composition of the various hues and shades of the semi-neutral _marrone_ or chocolate, and its relations, puce, murrey, morelle, mordore, pompadour, &c.; and is more or less present in
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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(Figures 88, 89) · Careful disinfection of the meatus, the glan and the prepuce, through the hole in the drapes.
Chapter 7
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Like how sometimes your friend has a new sweater in a particularly awful shade of puce that makes him/her look quite bilious, and when your friend asks, "How do I look in my pleasing new sweater?" you respond, if you are a well-bred person, "What a striking color that is!
Archive 2009-08-01
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Admittedly there was no hint of green, or purple, or grey, or puce, or taupe, or beige, or whatever the hell other parties there are.
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He just knew that he and Grace had known happiness on board the ship that had been named by her French builders for Joan of Arc, la pucelle or the virgin.
Sharpe's Prey
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What you take from this time as your individual gift will be different as puce and mauve.
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Her face turned puce with rage.
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She adopted the title 'pucelle' which means maid but it's a word that we don't really have in English, it's a person who is virtuous and has certain qualities...and this resonated with the people.
Reuters: Press Release
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From the old days, when you fought for things that mattered, like the right to wear puce in broad daylight?
LEGAL TENDER
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His face was puce with rage.
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The events occurring when they were reduced to 13 caused Gloucester's head coach to turn a darker shade of puce.
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Alpha-naphthylamine, Bluish claret red; Reddish puce.
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
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All that was needed abroad or at home was to repeat the same sentence more slowly at a puzzled auslander, if that didn't work it was polite to bellow it repeatedly while frothing at the mouth until puce.
Army Rumour Service
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Conclusion SP takes part in transmission of traumatic sensation message in the prepuce and frenulum of penis.
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You might consider trying to duplicate your institution's colors in the flower and candles, unless they are something like pomegranate and puce.
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Harangue de la pucelle Jeanne au roy pour l'induire a aller a Rheims. '
Joan of Arc
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There is no 'wale' of saints in this country, "said the father of Elliot;" and as this Pucelle of Lorraine must needs pass by us here, if she is still on the way, even tell us all your tale.
A Monk of Fife
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An oversized text with a puce cover, Blast's title was emblazoned diagonally across the cover in three-inch tall, bold, black type.
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More at the House Next Door and more from Dennis Cozzalio, who comments on what he found there, Frédéric Bonnaud's Senses of Cinema, in which Rivette delivers his quick takes on umpteen films, including this one: "Every time I make a film, from Paris nous appartient (1961) through Jeanne la pucelle (1994), I keep coming back to the shock we all experienced when we first saw Europa 51.
GreenCine Daily: Weekend fests and events.
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He would publish 1,000 copies of each book; 500 in morocco and 500 in cloth boards of smooth red, magenta, puce or dark blue.
Publisher William Pickering: The First to Use Cloth Bindings?
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'Les faits, pourtraict et iugement de Jeanne d'Arc, dicte la Pucelle d'Orléans (avec le texte latin).'
Joan of Arc
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Boyer, in the tenth volume of his "Treatise on Surgical Affections," gives several examples of this affection not due to age: one case was a person, simultaneously attacked by an adynamic fever and a blennorrhagia, who suffered from gangrene of the penis; the local and constitutional disturbance was not high, however, and the patient escaped with the simple loss of the prepuce.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
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Hypertrophy may take place in any degree, varying from the mere leathery and overpendulous but unobstructive prepuce to the case recorded by Vidal, in the fifth volume of his
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance
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Other pieces call to mind other color words - puce, cream, chartreuse, peat, liverish, brass - that seem almost right but are, in the end, wrong.
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Three of the Pucelle's heavy guns fired together, their sound almost stunning Sharpe, who was going from gunport to gunport and stabbing at the French with his cutlass.
Sharpe's Trafalgar
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Over this a sleeveless jacket of rich dark blue or puce brocade, plain or quilted, is worn; the trousers, of which little is seen, being of brocade or satin.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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The Jewish operator, after snipping off the foreskin, rips up the prepuce with his sharp thumb-nails so that the external cutis does not retract far from the internal; and the wound, when healed, shows a narrow ring of cicatrice.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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It seems that SNCF ticket machines, autoroute toll collection machines, etc. need a "puce" - what's a Yank to do?
Metro Boulot Dodo - French Word-A-Day
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Objective:To investigate the developmental regularity of Meissner's corpuscles in redundant prepuces.
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It is a pity that with that botchery (chapuceria), that ridiculous attitude which is incompatible with the dignity of the position, Mr. Kennedy sounded that sour note and dropped a stain on an action which was motivated by a lofty humanitarian spirit.
4TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTION
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Anthrax due to insect bite introduction (mechanical transmission) is characterized by localized hot, painful, edematous, and subcutaneous swellings at the bite location that spread to the throat, lower neck, floor of the thorax, abdomen, prepuce, and mammary glands.
Anthrax
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“As for that matter,” cried the other with precipitation, “they would have no occasion to batter in breach; they would find the angle of the la pucelle bastion demolished to their hands — he, he!” — “But I believe it would surpass your understanding,” resumed the chairman, “to fill up the fosse.” — “That, I own, is impracticable,” replied the bard, “there I should meet with a hiatus maxime deflendus!”
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle
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La courtisane anaphrodite ou la pucelle libertine Correspondance
Sex for Thought
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Pour into a jug and leave to cool; do not refrigerate as the syrup might crystallise and lose its fabulous puce clarity.
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Another struck the ship's beakhead, whistling a shred of wood high into the air, then a tearing, ripping, rustling sound made Sharpe look up to see that the Pucelle's main topgallant mast, the slenderest and highest portion of the mainmast, was falling to bring down a tangle of rigging and the main topgallant sail with it.
Sharpe's Trafalgar
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Someone with less means and more impulse control has to deeply consider each additional occasional table, settee, or portrait haggled for at the Marche aux Puces in Paris St-Ouen de Clignancourt.
Kathryn M. Ireland: Hoarding Versus Collecting
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Early regular mobilisation of the prepuce after surgery ensures an excellent functional and cosmetic result.
