taupe

Etymology

Borrowed from French taupe, from Latin talpa (“mole”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /təʊp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /toʊp/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

taupe (countable and uncountable, plural taupes)

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

   taupe colour:  

Adjective

taupe (comparative more taupe, superlative most taupe)

1. Of a dark brownish-grey colour.
   • 1915, Ben Hecht, "Life", The Little Review, 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, Wallace Earle Stegner, "Pop Goes the Alley Cat", Harper's Magazine, February, pp. 42-52,

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

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• ate up, eat up

Etymology

From Old French taupe, from Latin talpa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /top/

• audio (CA)

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Noun

taupe f (plural taupes)

1. mole (burrowing mammal, undercover agent)
2. tunneler
3. (education) higher mathematics class

Adjective

taupe (plural taupes)

1. taupe

Further reading

• “taupe” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

From Old French taupe, from Latin talpa.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey)

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Noun

taupe f (plural taupes)

1. (Jersey) mole (mammal)

Etymology

From Latin talpa.

Noun

taupe f (oblique plural taupes, nominative singular taupe, nominative plural taupes)

1. mole (mammal)

Noun

taupe

1. mine (place from which ore is extracted)