Color Names

Roanoke Taupe

Warm, dusty grey like wampum shells weathered on a Virginia trail.

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Roanoke Taupe is a warm grey.

It can be described as warm, muted, greyish and dusty.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Roanoke Taupe

Taupe

Taupe is a dark gray-brown color. The word derives from the French noun taupe meaning "mole". The name originally referred only to the average color of the French mole, but beginning in the 1940s, its usage expanded to encompass a wider range of shades.

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roanoke

Noun

  1. White beads of low value made from shells, formerly used for ornaments and currency by Native Americans of colonial Virginia.
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taupe

Noun

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

Adjective

  1. Of a dark brownish-grey colour.
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