beige
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Etymology [edit]
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 (býssos) 'cotton homespun', from Semitic (compare Hebrew/Aramaic būṣ)
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Wikipedia beige (plural beiges)
- A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
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beige colour:
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- debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods
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beige (comparative more beige, superlative most beige)
- Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 24, Crime out of Mind[1]:
- Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.
- 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 24, Crime out of Mind[1]:
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beige (comparative beiger, superlative meest beige or beigest)
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Finnish [edit]
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beige (comparative beigempi, superlative beigein)
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beige
- beige (color)
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French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Old French bege.
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beige (masculine and feminine, plural beiges)
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beige
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beige
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beige m and f singular & plural
Swedish [edit]
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- (Swedish) /beːɧ/ or /bɛːɧ/
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Attested from 1895. Borrowing from French beige. The slang definition is likely associated to the perceived blandness of the color.
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beige
- Beige.
- Hon hade en lång, beige kappa på sig.
- "She wore a long, beige coat."
- (slang) Boring, uninteresting, negative.
- Din morsa är så jävla beige!
- "Your mother is so damn dull."
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