Meanings
adjectivetaupe (comparative more taupe, superlative most taupe)
comparative more taupe · superlative most taupe
- Of a dark brownish-grey colour.
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 Magazine1 more example
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
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
Translations
Bulgarian тъмносив
- тъмносивa dark brownish-gray colour
Chinese Mandarin 褐灰色
- 褐灰色a dark brownish-gray colour
Czech hnědošedý
- hnědošedýof a dark brownish-gray colour
Dutch taupe, taupe
- taupea dark brownish-gray colour
- taupeof a dark brownish-gray colour
Estonian pruunikashall, pruunikashall
- pruunikashalla dark brownish-gray colour
- pruunikashallof a dark brownish-gray colour
Finnish ruskeanharmaa, ruskeanharmaa
- ruskeanharmaaa dark brownish-gray colour
- ruskeanharmaaof a dark brownish-gray colour
German braungrau, maulwurfsgrau
- braungraua dark brownish-gray colour
- maulwurfsgraua dark brownish-gray colour
- maulwurfgrauof a dark brownish-gray colour
- taupeof a dark brownish-gray colour
Hungarian tób, tóp
- tóba dark brownish-gray colour
- tópa dark brownish-gray colour
Italian talpa, topato
- talpaa dark brownish-gray colour
- topatoof a dark brownish-gray colour
Korean 회갈색
- 회갈색 (hoegalsaek)a dark brownish-gray colour
Polish szarobrązowy, szarobrązowy
- szarobrązowya dark brownish-gray colour
- szarobrązowyof a dark brownish-gray colour
Spanish talpa, pardo
- talpaa dark brownish-gray colour
- pardoa dark brownish-gray colour
- pardoof a dark brownish-gray colour
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with taupe
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All rhymes →Sounds the same
Anagrams
Cite this entry
APA
taupe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/taupe
MLA
“taupe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/taupe. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “taupe,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/taupe.
Source: taupe on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.