beige

Borrowed 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 bìgio), from Late Latin byssus 'cotton', from Ancient Greek βύσσος (bússos) 'cotton homespun', from Semitic (compare Hebrew/Aramaic בוץ‎ (būṣ))

• IPA^(key): [beɪʒ], [beɪdʒ]

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• Rhymes: -eɪʒ, -eɪdʒ

beige (countable and uncountable, plural beiges)

1. A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.

   beige colour:  

2. Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

beige (comparative beiger or more beige, superlative beigest or most beige)

1. Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 24, in Crime out of Mind‎:

     Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.

2. (informal) Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.
   • 2007, Prairie L. Markussen, Cover (page 48)

     Think about it: he grew up in Iowa, the beigest of states, was doted on, loved generously by his parents, the top of his class, probably voted Most Handsome of 2000.

   • 2010, Gerald J. McCarthy, A Man of Substances

     In the beigest parts of suburbia where I grew up, bridge was a game played by groups of parents in recreation rooms furnished with upright pianos and souvenir sombreros.

   • 2016, Penelope Garcia, Criminal Minds, Season 11, Episode 2 “The Witness”

     Charlie reminds me of the color beige (...) He has no criminal record. He has no traffic tickets. His social media posts are just like... he's beige.

• Beige Book

• Appendix:Colors

• beige on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Dutch beige, from French beige.

beige (attributive beige, comparative beiger, superlative beigeste)

1. beige

Borrowed from French beige.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛːʒə/

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• Hyphenation: bei‧ge

beige (comparative beiger, superlative meest beige or beigest)

1. beige

• beigeachtig

• beesi, bees

Borrowed from French beige.

beige (comparative beigempi, superlative beigein)

1. beige

beige

1. beige (color)

From Old French bege.

• IPA^(key): /bɛʒ/

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beige (plural beiges)

1. beige

• “beige” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from French beige.

• Predicative form: IPA^(key): /beːʃ/, /bɛːʃ/
• Inflected forms: IPA^(key): /beːʒə/, /bɛːʒə/, /beːʃə/, /bɛːʃə/

beige (not comparable)

1. beige

Beige is inflected like a regular adjective in pronunciation. However, since its basic form is written with a mute -e, the inflectional ending -e is not visible in writing: das beige [beːʒə] Haus – the beige house.

The other inflectional endings are visible: in dem beigen Haus – in the beige house.

• Beige

See the etymology of the main entry.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪ̯ɡə/
• Hyphenation: bei‧ge

beige

1. first-person singular present indicative of beigen
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of beigen
3. third-person singular present subjunctive of beigen
4. second-person singular imperative of beigen

• beige in Duden online

Borrowed from French beige.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeːʃ/

beige (masculine beigen, neuter beiget, comparative méi beige, superlative am beigesten)

1. beige

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): /beis/, [bei̯s]

beige (plural beige)

1. Alternative form of beis

beige m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of beis

• “beige” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Attested from 1895. Borrowed from French beige. The slang definition is likely associated to the perceived blandness of the color.

• (Swedish) IPA^(key): /beːɧ/, /bɛːɧ/
• Rhymes: -eːɧ, -ɛːɧ

beige

1. beige.

   Hon hade en lång, beige kappa på sig.

   She wore a long, beige coat.

2. (slang) boring, uninteresting, negative.

   Din morsa är så jävla beige!

   Your mother is so damn dull.