different between taupe vs brow

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)

English

Etymology

From Middle English browe, from Old English br?, from Proto-Germanic *br?w?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?b?rúHs (“brow”) (compare Middle Irish brúad, Tocharian B pärw?ne (“eyebrows”), Lithuanian bruvìs, Serbo-Croatian obrva, Russian ????? (brov?), Ancient Greek ????? (ophrús), Sanskrit ???? (bhr?)), Persian ????? (abr?, “eyebrow”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /b?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

brow (plural brows)

1. The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act III Scene v^[1]:

     'Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair, / Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream / That can entame my spirits to your worship.

   • c. 1763, Charles Churchill (satirist)\Charles Churchill, The Ghost

     And his arch'd brow, pulled o'er his eyes, / With solemn proof proclaims him wise.

2. The first tine of an antler's beam.
3. The forehead.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, Act II Scene iii^[2]:

     Thy spirit within thee hath been so at war,

     And thus hath so bestirr'd thee in thy sleep,

     That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow

     Like bubbles in a late-disturb'd stream, […]
4. The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.

   the brow of a precipice

5. (mining) A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.
6. (figuratively) Aspect; appearance.
7. (nautical) The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
8. (nautical) The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.

Synonyms

• forehead

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

brow (third-person singular simple present brows, present participle browing, simple past and past participle browed)

1. To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.
   • 1634, John Milton, Comus

     Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts / That brow this bottom glade.

Middle English

Noun

brow

1. Alternative form of browe

Norn

Etymology

From Old Norse brauð, from Proto-Germanic *braud?. Compare Shetlandic brau.

Noun

brow

1. (Orkney) bread

Plautdietsch

Adjective

brow

1. brave, audacious, daring, courageous, dauntless, intrepid