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French gray is a color in the color spectrum. It traditionally has a slightly warmer, more yellow tone than simple gray. References This ...
Taupe (/ ˈ t oʊ p / TOHP) 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.
Cadet gray is a slightly bluish shade of gray. The first recorded use of cadet grey as a color name in English was in 1912. [25] Before 1912, the word cadet gray was used as a name for a type of military issue uniforms. Most famously, it was the color of the uniforms of the Confederate Army.
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565, 24 cm × 34 cm (9.4 in × 13.4 in) Battesimo della gente, one of Andrea del Sarto's gray and brown grisaille frescoes in the Chiostro dello Scalzo, Florence (1511-26) Grisaille (/ ɡ r ɪ ˈ z aɪ / or / ɡ r ɪ ˈ z eɪ l /; French: grisaille, lit.
This article covers French words and phrases that have entered the English lexicon without ever losing their character as Gallicisms: they remain unmistakably "French" to an English speaker. They are most common in written English, where they retain French diacritics and are usually printed in italics. In spoken English, at least some attempt ...
Grey (more frequent British English) or gray (more frequent American English) [2] is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning that it has no chroma and therefore no hue. [3] It is the color of a cloud-covered sky, of ash, and of lead. [4]
Colors resembling gray. This category is for all varieties, not only shades in the technical sense. See also the categories Shades of black and shades of white
The following list details words, affixes and phrases that contain Germanic etymons. Words where only an affix is Germanic (e.g. méfait, bouillard, carnavalesque) are excluded, as are words borrowed from a Germanic language where the origin is other than Germanic (for instance, cabaret is from Dutch, but the Dutch word is ultimately from Latin/Greek, so it is omitted).