beige

«beige» in Mova's school dictionary: A pale, light brown colour, like sand or milky tea — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (beige); noun (beige — a colour)

meaning for a pupil

1) A pale, light brown colour, like sand or milky tea. tree →

2) (informal) Dull or boring, with nothing exciting about it, as in «a very beige outfit». tree →

sense in the lessons

In art lessons it is a neutral colour, made by mixing white with a little brown or yellow. In everyday life, many walls, carpets, coats and school uniforms are beige. As slang among young people, «beige» can mean boring or plain (a «beige flag» is a small odd habit of a partner, said jokingly).

examples

• She wore a beige coat and red boots. tree →
• Mix white paint with a little brown to make beige. tree →
• The walls of the waiting room were all beige. tree →
• Sand on this beach is a pale beige. tree →
• Our school jumpers used to be beige. tree →
• That party was so beige, nothing happened at all. (informal) tree →
• Beige goes well with navy blue. tree →

note

Said «bayzh», rhyming roughly with «stage» but with a soft zh sound at the end. Spelling trap: b-e-i-g-e, «ei» not «ie». It is a French word that came into English. As a colour noun it is uncountable: «I like beige».

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «beige» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.