beige英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A colour, variously defined from a pale brown, to a yellow greyish off-white. countable,uncountable
Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods. countable,uncountable

形容词 adj.

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

— Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.
Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia. informal

— Think about it: he grew up in Iowa, the beigest of states, was doted on, loved generously by his parents, the top of his class, probably voted Most Handsome of 2000.

词形变化

beiges plural beiger comparative more beige comparative beigest superlative most beige superlative

词汇关系

衍生词

Beige Book beige box beige fat beige flag beigeish beigeist beigely beigeness beige prose beigey beiging beigist sad beige

词源

词源 1

Unadapted borrowing from French (dialectal) beige, from Old French bege (“color of undyed wool or cotton”), from an Alpine language (compare Franco-Provençal bézho, Romansch besch (“dull grey”)), from Vulgar Latin *bysseus (“cottony grey”) (compare French bis, Catalan bis, Italian bigio), from Late Latin byssus (“cotton”), from Ancient Greek βύσσος (bússos, “cotton homespun”), from Semitic (compare Hebrew/Aramaic בוץ (būṣ)). Doublet of bice.

词源 2

Unadapted borrowing from French (dialectal) beige, from Old French bege (“color of undyed wool or cotton”), from an Alpine language (compare Franco-Provençal bézho, Romansch besch (“dull grey”)), from Vulgar Latin *bysseus (“cottony grey”) (compare French bis, Catalan bis, Italian bigio), from Late Latin byssus (“cotton”), from Ancient Greek βύσσος (bússos, “cotton homespun”), from Semitic (compare Hebrew/Aramaic בוץ (būṣ)). Doublet of bice.