taupe

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /təʊp/
• (America) IPA: /toʊp/

Noun

taupe

1. A dark brownish-grey colour, the colour of moleskin.

    

Translations

• Spanish: talpa, pardo

Adjective

taupe

1. Of a dark brownish-grey colour.
   • 1915, Ben Hecht, "Life", The Little Review, November,

     At five o'clock the patch of daylight above the red-lighted exit door turned taupe, as though a gray curtain had been flung across it; […]

   • 1952, Wallace Earle Stegner, "Pop Goes the Alley Cat", Harper's Magazine, February, pp. 42-52,

     In the front room, on an old taupe overstuffed sofa, the head of the house lay in a blanket bathrobe, […]

Translations

• Spanish: pardo

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