In Culture
Broadway
- In the 2007 Tony Award winning musical Grey Gardens fuchsia is referred to in the song "Revolutionary Costume for Today":
The best kind of shoes to express bold views / Are strapless mules in assertive hues /
Like fuchsia or peach, except on the beach, / In which case you wear flats.
Lexicography
- In gay slang, a beautiful, attractive woman is known as a fuchsia queen.
Sexuality
- In the handkerchief code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a fuchsia bandana means one has a fetish of spanking.
Video games
- Fuchsia City is an area in the Kanto region from the original Pokémon games.
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