beige

CEFRB1

/ˈbeɪʒ/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    a very light brown.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

Examples

  • He tricked me into thinking that his favorite color is beige.

  • She stained the wall beige.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈbæɪd͡ʒ/
  • /ˈbæɪʒ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.

  2. A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.

  3. A colour, variously defined from a pale brown, to a yellow greyish off-white.

More examples

In context

  • Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.

  • Mr. Lauwaert of Sony said he realized that most consumers were not going to buy computers that cost far more than discount beige boxes.

  • He has no criminal record. He has no traffic tickets. His social media posts are just like... he's beige.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

Unadapted borrowing from French (dialectal) beige, from Old French bege (“color of undyed wool or cotton”), from an Alpine language (compare Franco-Provençal bézho, Romansch besch (“dull grey”)), from Vulgar Latin *bysseus (“cottony grey”) (compare French bis, Catalan bis, Italian bigio), from Late Latin byssus (“cotton”), from Ancient Greek βύσσος (bússos, “cotton homespun”), from Semitic (compare Hebrew/Aramaic בוץ (būṣ)). Doublet of bice.