beige
意味
- ベージュ色(淡いとび色・黄色味を帯びた薄い茶色);ベージュ色の毛織物
- ベージュ色の
例文
She stained the wall beige.
彼女は壁をベージュ色にした。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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.