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Sep 30, 2005

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fuscous
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taupe

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taupe

noun: A brownish gray, similar to the color of moleskin.

[From French taupe (mole), from Latin talpa.]

"Like those of us doomed to repeat history, women seem to buy the same item over and over again. The Buffer's small point of information 'You've already got a top just like that' is rebuffed with: 'No, the old one (relative term, here) is taupe. The new one is ecru.'"
Tom Shields; Men's Place is Secondary in Any Battle of the Wardrobe; Sunday Herald (Glasgow, UK); Sep 4, 2005.

See more usage examples of taupe in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.

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