Re: RHS Colors & Names (Iris Humor)

I won't even try, Clarence.  I bow to the master.  Especially after your
Haiku.

But did you know that 'puce' is the French word for flea? And the color is
purplish-brown, the color of a well fed flea!

Keith
=> who's on a color-trivia roll.


>                                     I dream of it both night and day,
>                                     But sometimes feel compelled to say:
>                                     "My dreams are of such little use---
>                                     Shall I never see an iris of puce?"
> 
> Forgiveness please, Ogden Nash! 
> 
> Clarence Mahan in VA, who defies someone to write the next 4 lines.....
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