Beige vs Fawn - What's the difference?
beige | fawn |
A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods
Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
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A young deer.
A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.
(obsolete) The young of an animal; a whelp.
* Holland
Of the fawn colour.
To exhibit affection or attempt to please.
To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on'' or ''upon ).
* Shakespeare
* Milton
* Macaulay
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, chapter=2 (of a dog) To wag its tail, to show devotion.
As nouns the difference between beige and fawn
is that beige is a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool while fawn is a young deer.As adjectives the difference between beige and fawn
is that beige is having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool while fawn is of the fawn colour.As a verb fawn is
to give birth to a fawn.beige
English
Noun
(wikipedia beige) (en noun)Adjective
(wikipedia beige) (en adjective)Derived terms
* Beige BookSee also
* English words not following the I before E except after C rule ----fawn
English
(wikipedia fawn)Etymology 1
From (etyl) faon.Noun
(en noun)- [The tigress] after her fawns .
Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* fawn lilyEtymology 2
From (etyl) fawnen, from (etyl) fahnian, fagnian, . See also fain.Verb
(en verb)- You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds.
- Thou with trembling fear, / Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest.
- courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him
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