grège, a. and n.
(greɪʒ, grɛʒ)
Also greige.
[F. grège raw (silk).]
(Of) a colour between beige and grey.
| 1926 Dry Goods Economist 18 Sept. 13 Vera Dexter designed this sports dress of Belding's Crêpe in grège and beige. 1927 Weekly Dispatch 6 Nov. 10 The newest colours [for stockings]..are a deep peach-beige, light tan, and a soft grège shade something between a fawn and a grey. 1928 Daily Express 3 Apr. 5/4 Different shades of beige and greige are most in demand. 1931 Times 21 May 19/4 A gown of greige satin. 1949 Brit. Colour Council Dict. Colours III. 9/2 The colour names of Ecru, Beige and Grège..mean exactly the same thing—the colour of the condition of cloth in its raw, unbleached state. 1960 Harper's Bazaar Oct. 22 Wool-belted in Bronze, Ebony, Cypress, Graphite, Greige, Roan and African Violet. |