Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool. · Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.
A colour, variously defined from a pale brown, to a yellow greyish off-white. · Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.
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 (compare Hebrew/Aramaic בוץ (būṣ)). Doublet of bice.
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