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Definition of taupe
: a brownish gray
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Recent Examples of taupe from the Web
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Then, blend taupe and brown shades in the crease of your eye and on the outside corner to make your eyes appear bigger. 2.
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An industrial-looking scissor-lift-esque console from Kittles with a '70s stereo pairs with a massive TV mounted over a taupe suede couch from a past relationship — all under a sleek, bladeless chrome ceiling fan.
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Patrick Grant of E. Tautz, the impeccably stylish tailoring label celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, offered refined classics with a twist, like a taupe, dual-pocketed bomber in nylon with matching shorts.
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Homes with blue living rooms suffered $820 on average, whereas brown living rooms (whether light beige, pale taupe, or oatmeal) sold for $1,809 more, proving our prediction that brown is making a major comeback to be true.
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A soft taupe, like Nars Shimmer Eyeshadow in Valhalla, keeps it office-appropriate.
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But in Lemhi County, a hauntingly beautiful expanse of bald, taupe mountains and verdant river valleys wedged up against the Montana border, virtually no one puts a Democratic bumper sticker on his or her pickup.
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Think clubby: Long, tufted leather banquettes, muted taupe and brown color scheme, soaring oak pillar and a long bar that will probably be a busy meeting spot for the SouthPark area.
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Many of the sculptures bear the colors that match their counterparts in the natural world, mostly subdued umbers and rusts, creams and taupes.
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Origin and Etymology of taupe
French, literally, mole, from Old French, from Latin talpa
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