taupe

Etymology

Borrowed from French taupe, from Latin talpa (“mole”). Doublet of talpa.

noun

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

adj

1. Of a dark brownish-grey colour.
   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; […] November 1915, Ben Hecht, “Life”, in The Little Review
   In the front room, on an old taupe overstuffed sofa, the head of the house lay in a blanket bathrobe, […] February 1952, Wallace Earle Stegner, “Pop Goes the Alley Cat”, in Harper's Magazine