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Gray-brown stocking shade
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taupe
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Taupe , otherwise known as beige-brown, is a dark tan color in-between brown and gray. The word derives from the French noun taupe meaning " mole ". The name originally referred only to the average color of the French mole , but beginning in the 1940s, ...
Usage examples of taupe.
Davis Kimball, was spelled out in big stainless steel letters on the taupe wall opposite the elevators.
The man behind the desk was wearing a taupe suit, had short grey hair above a bony, sculpted sort of a face -Commander Tom Komen.
The bath had matching taupe towels and a cool tiled shower, plus a giant walk-in closet.
And though she was tired, when she put on one of her trim new skirts and that classic white sleeveless shirt, then the taupe heels, a thrill ran through her.
She was wearing the taupe heels again, and the gold anklet glittered around her ankle.
Nevertheless, there was not a moment he did not know precisely where one staid taupe gown was located.
The color was a wonderful taupe gray and had a matching sleeveless V-neck shell.
If Georgia was black and white and Amanda was peach, Karen was taupe today, and faded at that.
Now, he widened the hem border a touch, darkened the taupe in the embroidery and confidently slipped into the procession.
Old dead ribbons of taupe bunchgrass ringed it, and ice scalloped all around its verge like a camera iris closing.
Les Chinois, meilleurs observateurs, tiennent pour certain que le rat se change en caille, la taupe en loriot.
Museum of Drug Abuse it had been borrowed from, while Zoyd was put into the back of a taupe Caprice with government plates and taken away up the hill out of Gordita Beach, angling by surface streets southward and eastward, on into less developed neighborhoods full of oil wells and nodding pumps, green fields, horses, power lines, and railroad trestles, pulling in at last to a collection of low sand-colored structures that could have been some junior high school campus, with yellow tile walls and a lot of U.
Ruth, yet for some reason caused Paulie to do an abrupt about-turn and start to feel a little sorry for this officedog, so out of place here with her painted nails and vivid lips and tailored jacket and pelmet microskirt, all in cerise and taupe, and too-thin thighs encased in charcoal tights.
If Georgia was black and white and Amanda was peach, Karen was taupe today, and faded at that.
Even when casually attired Maxim was a most handsome man, of that fact there could be no dispute, but this morning he was garbed in fine apparel: a taupe velvet doublet, puffed trunk hose of the same hue, and a rich burgundy chamarre lavishly embroidered with gold threads around the high, stiff collar.