taupe

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The design scheme involves tasteful variations of beige and taupe, along with a few artfully arranged birch trunks.

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  • She was wearing a taupe-coloured linen dress similar in style to the one she had been wearing the day he had arrived. —  MasterofPleasure
  • She brushed down her taupe-cotton skirt, flicked a bit of lint from her pink, sleeveless sweater, and reached into the backseat for her suit jacket. —  Michaels, Kasey - Too Good To Be True.html
  • The Sig team was sweeping in from the entrance, cutting across the grand taupe-colored lobby, their boot heels clicking on the faux stone floor. —  Hunter, Healer [Sequel to The Society] - Lilith Saintcrow
  • Nobody else at Rosato bothered with nylon knee-highs, but Mary had grown up watching the mamarellas on the C bus wear them with dresses and had nursed a secret fondness for their taupe ugliness. —  KillerSmile
  • The carpet was taupe, the walls tan and cream, the furniture modern with leathers and blond woods He threw the door the rest of the way open, went in The dark green spread on the bed had been turned back, an apple green blanket with deep leaf-green edging was tangled in a ball, and the sheets, also green, but of a very pale shade, were tangled among the long, fat man's arms and legs. —  149 - King Joe Cay
 

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  1. French, from Old French, mole, from Latin talpa.

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  1. Formerly also talpe; from French taupe, Old French taupe, talpe, from Latin talpa, a mole.
 

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/tɔp/
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