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beige.

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

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈbeɪʒ/General-American, Received-Pronunciation/ˈbeɪd͡ʒ/General-American, Received-Pronunciation/ˈbɛjʒ/British, Southern, Standard/ˈbɛjd͡ʒ/British, Southern, Standard

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

    countable · uncountable

  2. Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

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.

adj/ˈbeɪʒ/General-American, Received-Pronunciation/ˈbeɪd͡ʒ/General-American, Received-Pronunciation/ˈbɛjʒ/British, Southern, Standard/ˈbɛjd͡ʒ/British, Southern, Standard

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

  2. Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.

    informal
Where this word comes from

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.

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