beige
beige
A woman wearing a beige colored coat.
A pale tan color; the color of natural, undyed wool.
beige
- a soft wool fabric, formerly undyed and unbleached
- its characteristic sandy color; grayish tan
Origin of beige
Fr, origin, originally , natural color of wool from uncertain or unknown; perhaps grayish-tan
beige
noun
- A light grayish brown or yellowish brown to grayish yellow.
- A soft fabric of undyed, unbleached wool.
adjective
Light grayish-brown or yellowish-brown to grayish-yellow.
Origin of beige
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 ; see bombazine .beige
Noun
(plural beiges)
- A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
- debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods
Adjective
(comparative more beige, superlative most beige)
- Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
Origin
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))
