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Puce is (to me) a brownish purple color. I baked a loaf of blueberry bread in breadmaker and guess what! The bread was puce colored! Closed my eyes to eat it!
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Yes, puce is also a flea-- a fruit flea-- a psylla
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I imagine "indian red" was changed for matters of sensitivity, but it should have been to a name that didn't already have a place elsewhere.
Crayola used to have a color called "flesh" that was pinkish. Even when I was a kid I thought it was odd. Of course bandaids didn't match my skin either.
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BlanchePatch, welcome.
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Egyptian Red, I think. That's what the visitors of Egypt called it when they saw it. (In fact the Egyptians invented it in the middle or old kingdom. -Scott rough_collie@dog.com
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This was posed to me yesterday 
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But what color is that? Indian red to me is a iron oxide red-- there is a clay out cropping not far from where i live (in a state park) and you can find "indaian paint pots" small round lumps of clay that have rock like out crusts-- you break them open, and the clay inside has become creamy and soft-- and can be use to "Paint" your face-- (there are also ocher ones, with yellow paint). the red of the indian paint pots to me is indian red-- a red iron oxide.
Is Eygptian red also a red oxide? (which is also known as barn red-- since iron oxide pigment has great staying power, and a when you painted a barn red, you didn't have to repaint it to often.)
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"And what colour is a mirror?" asked Tom reflectively...
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Mirrors are often (usually !) silver-- quick silver-- but i have seen bronze mirrors and other color mirrors.
I have an old mirror that i have to be careful when i move it- the mercury is detaching-- and i get beads of quick-silver! -- and a prism is way of seeing component color-- lt (the triangle of glass) lets us see the color component color so white light-- but did you ever shine a flash light beam into a prism-- and laser light enters and leaves a prism unchange in color --(of course--it is a single frequency of light--) but it does change direction...
obviously, the problem is, we use the same word for the triangluar piece of glass, as we do for the result of white light that enter the glass.
M-W word of the day is "sound" -- have you every smelled a sound? I have!-- an other word that has more than one meaning!
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have you every smelled a sound? Yep. When the bob comes up from the bed of the Thames in the outer reaches towards the sea, you know exactly what the smell of the sound is - and it's almost unfathomably horrible! barf 
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