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beige

Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪʒ/

The English word “beige” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A colour, variously defined from a pale brown, to a yellow greyish off-white.
  2. Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

adjective

  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.

Etymology

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…

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