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
The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea The book, mentioning a microscope which increases by 5,000,000 times, the likes of which are being used now in nanotechnology, featured in a "Nature Physics" article in 2007. In Russian language the nickname of the hero, Levsha (Leftie) has become a reference to an exceptionally skilled common-folk craftsman, and the expression "to shoe a flea" has become an idiomatic phrase signifying craftsman's feat. The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea "The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea" (, Skaz o Tulskom kosom Levshe i o stalnoy Blokhe), "The Tale of the Crosseyed