greige

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I'm not in love with the purple but that charcoal grey looks nice and I can see it being very lovely in a greige, a cream, and a yummy chocolate brown. atlantadesigner on 2008-09-18 17: 09: 24 view atlantadesigner's

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  • We're redesigning our office here at work, and I've put forth this kind of idea, a greige overall paint color, and then allowing each team member to have a bright pop of color on one wall in their office - if we were going with these combos in that sort of idea, I love the coffee and indigo. —  Apartment Therapy Main
  • I'm not in love with the purple but that charcoal grey looks nice and I can see it being very lovely in a greige, a cream, and a yummy chocolate brown. atlantadesigner on 2008-09-18 17: 09: 24 view atlantadesigner's —  Apartment Therapy Main
  • All are decorated in soothing shades of taupe and greige, with huge beds adorned with Egyptian cotton sheets, Japanese-style soaking tubs and fluffy Frette towels, and HD-LCD screens. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • The steps taken to close the joint venture company Vibrant Tex will eventually result in an improvement in profitability as the company can source cheaper greige through the new liaison office in Pakistan. —  Free Apparel News – Apparel RSS XML Feeds – Fibre2fashion.com
  • Early Morning Mist (#1528): "Somewhere between gray and beige" is this versatile neutral "greige." —  Reader's Digest
 

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  1. French grège, from Italian (seta) greggia, raw (silk), from greggio, gray, of Germanic origin.
 

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