beige

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noun

very light brown, as of undyed wool; light gray with a brownish tinge.

adjective

of the color beige.

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Origin of beige

1855–60; < French; Old French bege, of uncertain origin

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Before the race, he had entered the grandstands waving his beige Stetson in the air, as if already on a victory lap.
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Dressed entirely in beige, working the A-1 cash register, it was clear that Walt no longer wanted to be Heisenberg.
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Her beige niqab (a conservative Islamic headdress that shows only the eyes) was stained from hours of crying.
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I see the blue and I see the beige and I see two peoples with complex, overlapping ties to the same land.
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The conference room on the third floor of the New York Helmsley hotel is rather dourly decorated in a palette of brown and beige.
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Her peignoir of beige, embroidered with red silk, was evidently of Parisian manufacture.
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She was daintily dressed in some sort of beige chiffon with pearls about her neck, and had easy, pleasant manners.
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In giving a brownish hue to such light colors as beige, ecru, etc., it is invaluable.
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It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before.
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Harry noticed she was wearing a beige knit suit with a neckline that spoke volumes.
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British Dictionary definitions for beige

beige

noun

a very light brown, sometimes with a yellowish tinge, similar to the colour of undyed wool
(as adjective)beige gloves

a fabric made of undyed or unbleached wool

Word Origin for beige

C19: from Old French, of obscure origin

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Word Origin and History for beige

beige

1858, "fine woolen fabric," from dialectal French beige "yellowish-gray, brownish-gray," from Old French bege "the natural color of wool and cotton; raw, not dyed" (13c.), of obscure origin. "Das Wort lebt namentlich in der Bourgogne und Fr. Comté, daneben aber auch im Südwesten" [Gamillscheg]. As a shade of color, it is attested from 1879. As an adjective by 1879.

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