Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling the colour beige.

Etymologies

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beige +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Depending on what your skin tone is, that beigy color may or may not be nude.

    Gunn’s Golden Rules Tim Gunn 2010

  • Depending on what your skin tone is, that beigy color may or may not be nude.

    Gunn’s Golden Rules Tim Gunn 2010

  • Depending on what your skin tone is, that beigy color may or may not be nude.

    Gunn’s Golden Rules Tim Gunn 2010

  • After that, the men heaved the body on a picnic table wrapped in Glad bags and tape and rolled the carcass on its back and split the skin down the long belly, its guts oozing out—all beigy, peachy and blue like clouds of chewed bubble-gum or the bulbs of a wilted, worn-in coin purse.

    KRISTIN NACA--YOU GO, GIRL! 2008

  • After that, the men heaved the body on a picnic table wrapped in Glad bags and tape and rolled the carcass on its back and split the skin down the long belly, its guts oozing out—all beigy, peachy and blue like clouds of chewed bubble-gum or the bulbs of a wilted, worn-in coin purse.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • I ended up making both grandsons a pair while down there in rowan cashsoft in a delightful beigy colour I found in the local yarn store.

    Finished things:) ambermoggie 2007

  • No florescent glare from up above, no cold clammy hands handing you sheets and sheets of forms to fill out, no strange stares from underneath bi-focal lenses, no beigy-grey paint peeling from the walls, no ghetto plastic chairs that are about to collapse from underneath you ....

    moschikat Diary Entry moschikat 2002

  • Genna laughed, then admired the new carpet, telling Patsy, “This beigy color is very nice.”

    Voices Carry Mariah Stewart 2001

  • The houses, in a new development, are similar in style, a Florida-Mediterranean look, mostly beigy-pink in color, with tile roofs, priced in the $150,000-to-$175,000 range.

    The Verdict Dunne, Dominick 1992

  • I remember seeing his Florida tan turn sort of beigy.

    Working Murder Boylan, Eleanor 1989

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