英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeɪʒ/, /ˈbeɪd͡ʒ/
• 韻: -eɪʒ, -eɪdʒ

名詞

beige (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 beiges)

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

   beige:  

2. Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

形容詞

beige (comparative beiger または more beige, superlative beigest または most beige)

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

   Synonyms: bland, indistinct, colorless, drab

   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 24, in Crime out of Mind‎^[1]:

     Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.

   • 2006 November 23, Michel Marriott, “When Beige Won’t Do”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Mr. Lauwaert of Sony said he realized that most consumers were not going to buy computers that cost far more than discount beige boxes.

2. (informal, originally US) Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.

   Synonyms: bland, tedious

   • 2007, Prairie L. Markussen, Cover, page 48:

     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.

   • 2010, Gerald J. McCarthy, A Man of Substances:

     In the beigest parts of suburbia where I grew up, bridge was a game played by groups of parents in recreation rooms furnished with upright pianos and souvenir sombreros.

   • 2013 March 25, Eric Asimov, “A Beige Wine for a Beige Meal”, in NYT Diner’s Journal Blog‎^[3]:

     For a meal of relentlessly beige food, may I suggest the beigest of wines? That would be chardonnay, which will go beautifully with Melissa Clark’s chicken potpie.

   • 2016, Penelope Garcia, “The Witness”, in Criminal Minds, season 11, episode 2:

     He has no criminal record. He has no traffic tickets. His social media posts are just like... he's beige.

派生語

参考

• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• beige on Wikipedia.
• Jonathon Green (2023), “beige adj.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang