puniceous

From Latin pūniceus, from pūnicus (“Punic”).

puniceous (comparative more puniceous, superlative most puniceous)

1. (obsolete) Bright red or purple in colour.

• “puniceous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• pecunious