Beige Definition
- ecru
- saffron-yellow
- primrose-yellow
- walnut-brown
- grege
- coffee-brown
- citron-yellow
- canary yellow
- buff-yellow
- khaki
- cream
- color
- camel
- tan
- brownish
- umber-colored
- toast-brown
- snuff-colored
- seal brown
- sand-colored
- saffron-colored
- primrose-colored
- ochry
- ochrous
- ochreous
- ochery
- ocherish
- dun-brown
- lemon yellow
- fawn-colored
Other Word Forms of Beige
Noun
Origin of Beige
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Borrowing from French dialectal beige, from Old French bege 'color of undyed wool or coton', from an Alpine language (compare Franco-Provençal bézho, Romansch besch) 'dull grey', from Vulgar Latin *bysseus 'cottony grey' (compare French bis, Catalan bis, Italian bìgio), from Late Latin byssus 'cotton', from Ancient Greek βύσσος (býssos) 'cotton homespun', from Semitic (compare Hebrew/Aramaic [script?] (būṣ))
From Wiktionary
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French fine woolen fabric left in its natural color from Old French bege perhaps from shortening of Old Italian bambagia cotton wool ultimately from Medieval Latin bombax cotton bombazine
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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