Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A light grayish brown or yellowish brown to grayish yellow.
- n. A soft fabric of undyed, unbleached wool.
- adj. Light grayish-brown or yellowish-brown to grayish-yellow.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having its natural color: said of a woolen fabric made of undyed wool.
- n. A thin, wiry dress-fabric of worsted, originally unbleached, but now made in all colors and many designs.
Wiktionary
- n. A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
- n. debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods
- adj. Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Debeige.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of a light greyish-brown color
- n. a very light brown
Etymologies
- Borrowing from French dialectal beige, from Old French bege 'color of undyed wool or coton', from an Alpine language (compare Franco-Provençal bézho, Romansch besch) 'dull grey', from Vulgar Latin *bysseus 'cottony grey' (compare French bis, Catalan bis, Italian bìgio), from Late Latin byssus 'cotton', from Ancient Greek (býssos) 'cotton homespun', from Semitic (compare Hebrew/Aramaic būṣ) (Wiktionary)
- French, fine woolen fabric left in its natural color, from Old French bege, perhaps from shortening of Old Italian bambagia, cotton wool, ultimately from Medieval Latin bombax, cotton; see bombazine. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The beige is a little too neutral for my taste ...”
“Oh, and it's only $10 and available in beige, white and black.”
“Us boy-men gallivanted around in short beige shorts and white golf shirts.”
“Has no one noticed that all Apple products now look the same for years and that the new beige is now Aluminum?”
“The rooms are gloriously furnished in beige and white, with gigantic, extremely comfortable beds.”
“There were so many possible misspellings of the word beige baje, biege, beyge, baige, bayje, for starters and I kept getting it wrong on my weekly Outfit Charts.”
“In the sink, cigarette stubs and globs of pizza floated in beige water.”
“I pressed my palm over the flower and squashed it against the plain beige cardboard.”
“There were so many possible misspellings of the word beige (baje, biege, beyge, baige, bayje, for starters) and I kept getting it wrong on my weekly Outfit Charts.”
“The best word people have used to describe it is 'beige' - it's beige.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘beige’.
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Uncommon Colours
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Colour Me Happy
violet, lavender, rose, eggshell, mauve, fuschia, grey, azure, almond, sienna, purple, periwinkle and 71 more...
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jonasword's list
My words unusual strange new clever or stupid
puce, ecru, magenta, mauve, taupe, azure, cerulean, celadon, cinnabar, viridian, vermilion, ultramarine and 6 more...
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colors
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red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, purple, pink, grey, gray, white, black and 25 more...
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Brown
chocolate, chestnut, coffee, beige, clay, bronze, copper, camel, chamoisee, tan, wenge, umber and 16 more...
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gre2
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schinders's Words
persiflage, preterition, quidnunc, finick, termagant, otiose, magniloquent, weltschmerz, schadenfreude, piehole, malevolent, susurrus and 132 more...
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eesome
Includes any intangible conceivable independently of Hom. Sap.
depthless, overspire, unsteady, thitherward, rile, munchable, covet, pastinaceous, mirtle, slonk, tink, inerrarable and 345 more...
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chromatica
cerulean, vermilion, sienna, terracotta, red, yellow, umber, green, blue, ultramarine, burnt sienna, cadmium yellow and 108 more...
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My Revised GRE Preparation List
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mulct, dupe, pittance, stipend, defray, cupidity, avarice, prodigal, profligate, affluent, insolvent, penurious and 533 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, B
bloviate, bejesus, brouhaha, behoove, bodacious, bamboozle, banshee, bub, bolus, blob, bubbly, bleb and 414 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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Jacqueline's Words
glittery, horny, amazing, wanderlust, forlorn, lustily, nonchalant, cool, passive, submissive, roundabout, carousel and 558 more...
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White
cream, vanilla, pearlescent, ivory, shell, coconut, eggshell, beige, magnolia, snow
Tweets
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fbharjo means 'fine threads' sounds like modern slang Aug 30, 2009
yarb Beautiful word. Mar 3, 2009
chained_bear Beige is so beige. Sep 3, 2008