Crossword clues for beige
beige
- Tan shade
- Pantyhose shade
- Pastel color
- Sandy hue
- Stocking color
- Hosiery color
- Nonclashing color
- Light brown color
- Brown family member
- Brownish color
- Tan tone
- Stockings shade
- Khaki relative
- Light hue
- Pantyhose color, perhaps
- Lingerie shade
- Khaki color
- Grayish tan
- Tan cousin
- Sandy fawn
- Popular nylon color
- Popular neutral shade
- Oatmeal kin
- Metaphorically dull
- Light, light brown
- Kin of oatmeal
- Hardly loud color
- Fawn relative
- Ecrulike shade
- Ecru, more or less
- Color that's similar to tan
- Color similar to fawn
- Color of many khakis
- Choice to minimize clashing
- Biscuit color
- Bandage color
- A neutral tone
- "Boring" shade
- Earth tone
- Stocking shade
- Grayish-tan
- Hose hue
- Ecru relative
- It goes with almost anything
- Khaki-like color
- Neutral shade
- Subdued hue
- Hosiery hue
- Neutral hue
- It's darker than cream
- Light shade
- Color that blends well
- Like desert sand
- Soft shade
- Common pantyhose shade
- A very light brown
- Ecru's kin
- Shade of brown
- Neutral color
- Color of natural wool
- Color like khaki
- Grasped by worker, US soldier moving back a shade
- Sort of brown insect eats midge, missing odd bits
- Light tan
- Light brown shade
- Request to include island, Eastern, to provide colour
- Hosiery shade
- Brown shade
- Yellowish brown shade
- Sandy color
- Neutral tone
- Grayish brown
- Hose shade
- Pale brown
- Sandy shade
- Pale color
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
colorful \colorful\ adj.
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having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing; prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled]
Syn: colourful.
striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious; flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty; picturesque]
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having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and monochrome.
Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden; azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue; blushful, blush-colored, rosy; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy; brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow; caramel, caramel brown; carnation; chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured; mousy, mouse-colored; ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive; orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish; purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red; rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown; sorrel, brownish-orange; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured; tan; tangerine; tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red; yellow, yellowish; yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue); coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress; hazel; honey, honey-colored; hued(postnominal); magenta; maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green; sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark, light.]
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1858, "fine woolen fabric," from dialectal French beige "yellowish-gray, brownish-gray," from Old French bege "the natural color of wool and cotton; raw, not dyed" (13c.), of obscure origin. "Das Wort lebt namentlich in der Bourgogne und Fr. Comté, daneben aber auch im Südwesten" [Gamillscheg]. As a shade of color, it is attested from 1879. As an adjective by 1879.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool. 2 (cx informal English) Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia. n. 1 A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool. 2 debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods
WordNet
adj. of a light grayish-brown color
n. a very light brown [syn: ecru]
Wikipedia
Beige is an album by the Canadian comedy music group, The Arrogant Worms. It was released in February 2006.
Beige is a young adult novel by Cecil Castellucci. It was published by Candlewick Press in 2007 and is Castellucci's third novel.
Beige is variously described as a pale sandy fawn color, a grayish tan, a light-grayish yellowish brown, or a pale to grayish yellow. It takes its name from French, where the word originally meant natural wool that has been neither bleached nor dyed, and hence also the color of natural wool. It has come to be used to describe a variety of light tints chosen for their neutral or pale warm appearance.
Beige was used as a color term in the modern sense in France beginning approximately 1855-60; the writer Edmond de Goncourt used it in the novel La Fille Elisa in 1877. The first recorded use of beige as a color name in English was in 1887.
Beginning in the 1920s, the meaning of beige expanded so that it is now also used not only for pale yellowish-brown colors, but also for a wide range of pale brown and light brown shades. Some of more notable of these tints and shades are shown below.
Beige is notoriously difficult to produce in traditional offset CMYK printing due to the low levels of inks used on each plate; often it will print in purple or green and vary within a print run.
Usage examples of "beige".
Given the bleached dreadlocks, hobo beard and beige elephants stampeding across an ill-fitting sports shirt it was unlikely the thin man came from anywhere else.
My excitable familiar might have been summoning me to a discussion on the merits of beige over ecru, for all the emotion in his voice.
One was a nondescript beige sedan, one was a rusty Ford pickup that looked older than Goss, and the last was a gray Chevy Tahoe.
Betty Raye came in wearing the same beige cocktail dress she always wore, and as always, she felt like a piece of old vanilla fudge compared to the rest of the women in their vivid and colorful clothes and jewels.
The door was opened by a girl dark as night but dressed in dawn-shades: a dress sewn of beiges, whites, and pale, pale yellows.
Blue blouse, beige slacks, red hair: she looked as summery as the day, and he smiled in spite of his headache and rested his eyes and his mind on the pretty harper.
From the upsweep of honey beige hair to the tip of her freckled nose, Katie was all woman with the zest for life of a young girl.
The viga ceiling, terra-cotta tile floor, and beige adobe walls gave the room a rustic feel.
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This morning as always his New Lebanon Sheriffs Department shirt was clean and stiff as a sheet of new balsa wood and his beige slacks had razor creases.
Since the living room faced west, an orange haze filtered through the window, burnishing the mocha-colored walls and casting a warm glow on the ivory and beige tones of the decor.
Even the private entryway tiles had been repolished to a beige glaze, with all the scuffs and bootmarks removed.
They stood before the wall, staring down the beige strand to the crashing waves.
She pulls up the bottom of one pant leg, unhemmed and unraveling beige polyester, to show her leg wrapped thick with a dirty elastic bandage.
Curia Hostilia had been uninspiring within: the tiers had been blocks of unrendered tufa, the walls drably painted with a few red curliques and lines on a beige background, the curule dais more tufa stone, and the central space between the two banks of tiers tessellated in black and white marble so old it had long lost polish or majesty.