publicité, n.f., publicity, notoriety; advertising, advertisements.
publier, v.a., to publish, to make public, to proclaim, to celebrate, to trumpet forth, to bring out, to issue. — quelque chose sur les toits; to proclaim anything from the house-tops, to trumpet forth anything. — une ordonnance; to issue an ordonnance.
publiquement (-blik-mān), adv., publicly, in public.
puce, n.f., (ent.) flea. Herbe aux —s; flea-bane, fleawort. — d’eau; water-beetle. — de mer; psyllus marinus. — de terre; earth-puceron. Avoir la — à l’oreille; to have a flea in one’s ear, to be uneasy, anxious. Mettre à quelqu’un la — à l’oreille; to give any one cause for uneasiness.
puce, adj., puce, puce-colored.
puceau, n.m., chaste youth; (iron.) spoony, simpleton.
pucelage (pu-slaj), n.m., (l.ex.) maidenhead, virginity; (mol.) cowry; (bot.) periwinkle.
pucelle, n.f., (fam.) maid, maiden, virgin; (ich.) shad. La — d’Orléans; the maid of Orleans (Joan of Arc).
puceron (pu-sron), n.m., (ent.) plant-louse; green-fly.
puddlage, n.m., (metal.) puddling.