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- paraselene0
'the word puce comes, as so many others, from the french. puce is the french word for flea! yes, the color is a brownish-purple or a purplish-pink, the color of the blood-sucking flea; coagulated blood in other words.'
fascinating!
and:
'the word itself is a toponym after chartreuse mountain, from which came the name la grande chartreuse, which was the carthusian monastery in grenoble. there, the monks produced an aromatic liqueur, which in turn was named–you guessed it–chartreuse.'
i'm glad i cleared that up.