different between ecru vs taupe

English

Alternative forms

• écru

Etymology

From French écru (“raw, unbleached”).

Noun

ecru (countable and uncountable, plural ecrus)

1. A beige colour.

Adjective

ecru (not comparable)

1. Of a beige colour.

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• Cure, crue, cuer, cure

Italian

Etymology

French

Adjective

ecru (invariable)

1. ecru

Noun

ecru m or f (invariable)

1. ecru
2. colore naturale della tela

Anagrams

• cure

Romanian

Etymology

From French écru.

Adjective

ecru m or n (feminine singular ecr?, masculine plural ecri, feminine and neuter plural ecre)

1. ecru

Declension

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t??p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /to?p/

Noun

taupe (countable and uncountable, plural taupes)

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

Translations

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, […]

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• ate up, eat up

French

Etymology

From Old French taupe, inherited from Latin talpa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /top/

Noun

taupe f (plural taupes)

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

Derived terms

Adjective

taupe (plural taupes)

1. taupe

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

From Old French taupe, from Latin talpa.

Pronunciation

Noun

taupe f (plural taupes)

1. (Jersey) mole (mammal)

Synonyms

• taupîn

Old French

Etymology

From Latin talpa.

Noun

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

1. mole (mammal)

Descendants

• French: taupe
• Norman: taupe (Jersey)

Tocharian B

Noun

taupe ?

1. mine (place from which ore is extracted)