![]() The first recorded use of beige as a color name in English was in 1887. It has come to be used to describe a variety of light tints chosen for their neutral or pale warm appearance.īeige began to commonly be used as a term for a color in France beginning approximately 1855–60 the writer Edmond de Goncourt used it in the novel La Fille Elisa code: fra promoted to code: fr in 1877. It takes its name from French, where the word originally meant natural wool that has been neither bleached nor dyed, hence also the color of natural wool. ![]() Freshly-shorn wool from the Royal Winter Fair.īeige is variously described as a pale sandy fawn color, a grayish tan, a light-grayish yellowish brown, or a pale to grayish yellow. Beige code: fra promoted to code: fr is the French word for the color of natural wool.
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