Beige is a very pale brown color variously described as a pale sandy fawn color a grayish tan a light-grayish yellowish brown or a pale to grayish yellow. It takes its name from the French word for the color of natural wool. It has come to be used for a range of light tints chosen for their neutral or pale warm appearance.Beige was used as a color term in the modern sense in France beginning in about 1855-60; the writer Edmond de Goncourt used it in the novel La Fille Elisa in 1877.
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