Beige vs Taupe - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between beige and taupe

is that beige is beige (uninflected, the colour as such) while taupe is a dark brownish-grey colour, the colour of moleskin.

of a dark brownish-grey colour.

(wikipedia beige) (en noun)

A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.

debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods

(wikipedia beige) (en adjective)

Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.

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* Beige Book

(en noun)

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

(en adjective)

Of a dark brownish-grey colour.

* 1915 , , 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 , , February, pp. 42-52,

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

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