taupe
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noun
a moderate to dark brownish gray, sometimes slightly tinged with purple, yellow, or green.
Origin:
1910–15; < French < Latin talpa mole
1910–15; < French < Latin talpa mole
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| —n | |
| a. a brownish-grey colour | |
| b. (as adjective): a taupe coat | |
| [C20: from French, literally: mole, from Latin talpa] | |
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Taupe
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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Word Origin & History
taupe
1880s, "a mole," later (1911) "dark brownish-gray color" (the color of moleskin), from Fr. taupe, the color, originally "a mole," from L. talpa "a mole."
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Example sentences
Instead of a montage of taupe and gray, it featured a few spots of beige.
These plastic lawn chairs come in white, green and taupe.
Arrange miniature deep green conifers around a trio of taller lime green ones in a low taupe bowl.
Our home used to be a pinkish-taupe, which was a horrible background for yellow- or chartreuse-leaved plants.
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