Color Names

York Beige

Stone walls in York, weathered to a warm, dusty grey.

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York Beige is a warm grey, close to brown.

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

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York Beige

York

York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss. It has many historic buildings and other structures, including the minster, castle and city walls, all of which are Grade I listed. It is the traditional county town of Yorkshire, and the administrative centre of the City of York district. It is located 27 miles (43 km) north-east of Leeds, 90 miles (140 km) south of Newcastle upon Tyne and 207 miles (333 km) north of London. York's built-up area had a recorded population of 141,685 at the 2021 census.

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Beige

Beige is variously described as a pale sandy fawn color, a grayish tan, a light-grayish yellowish brown, or a pale to grayish yellow. It takes its name from French, where the word originally meant natural wool that has been neither bleached nor dyed, hence also the color of natural wool.

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york

Verb

  1. to bowl a yorker at a batsman, especially to get a batsman out in this way.

Verb

  1. To vomit.
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beige

Noun

  1. A colour, variously defined from a pale brown, to a yellow greyish off-white.
  2. Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

Adjective

  1. Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.
  2. Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.
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