Puce eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #19-1518 TPX—Puce. Puce Puce is a dark red or purple brown color, a brownish purple or a "dark reddish brown." "Puce" is the French word for "flea". The color is said to be the color of bloodstains on linen or bedsheets, even after being laundered, from a flea's droppings, or after a flea has been crushed. The "Oxford English Dictionary" ("OED") dates the first English use of "puce" as a color to 1778. The name comes from the French word "puce", or flea, which comes from the Latin words for flea, "pulicem" or "pulex". According
Spanish Flea Ben "The Machine" Agombar, Mike Orr and Roberto Rojas. It was mashed up with American rapper Snoop Dogg's "Drop It Like It's Hot" on YouTube. Spanish Flea "Spanish Flea" is a popular song written by Julius Wechter in the 1960s with lyrics by Cissy Wechter. The song is best known from an instrumental version by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, released as a B-side to the single "What Now My Love" and on their 1965 album "Going Places". The album was a No. 1 hit in the U.S. and the single peaked at #27 on the "Billboard" Hot 100