Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A light grayish brown or yellowish brown to grayish yellow.
- noun A soft fabric of undyed, unbleached wool.
- adjective Light grayish-brown or yellowish-brown to grayish-yellow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thin, wiry dress-fabric of worsted, originally unbleached, but now made in all colors and many designs.
- Having its natural color: said of a woolen fabric made of undyed wool.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Debeige.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
- noun
debeige ; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods - adjective Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of a light greyish-brown color
- noun a very light brown
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The beige is a little too neutral for my taste ...
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Has no one noticed that all Apple products now look the same for years and that the new beige is now Aluminum?
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Oh, and it's only $10 and available in beige, white and black.
September 2008 2008
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Us boy-men gallivanted around in short beige shorts and white golf shirts.
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The rooms are gloriously furnished in beige and white, with gigantic, extremely comfortable beds.
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The rooms are gloriously furnished in beige and white, with gigantic, extremely comfortable beds.
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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.
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In the sink, cigarette stubs and globs of pizza floated in beige water.
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I pressed my palm over the flower and squashed it against the plain beige cardboard.
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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.
Progressive Bloggers 2008
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According to the TikTok users who have latched on to the term in the past month, a beige flag is an odd trait in a romantic prospect that is not quite a deal breaker, but not exactly a plus, either.
chained_bear commented on the word beige
Beige is so beige.
September 3, 2008
yarb commented on the word beige
Beautiful word.
March 3, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word beige
means 'fine threads' sounds like modern slang
August 30, 2009