- published: 23 May 2016
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Beige is a term used for a range of pale brownish or yellowish colors. It 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 not been bleached nor dyed, and hence also the color of natural wool. It has come to be used to describe a variety of light tints chosen for their neutral or pale warm appearance.
Beige was used as a color term in the modern sense in France beginning approximately 1855-60; the writer Edmond de Goncourt used it in the novel La Fille Elisa in 1877. The first recorded use of beige as a color name in English was in 1887.
Beginning in the 1920s, the meaning of beige expanded so that it is now also used not only for pale yellowish-brown colors, but also for a wide range of pale brown and light brown shades. Some of more notable of these tints and shades are shown below.
Beige is notoriously difficult to produce in traditional offset CMYK printing due to the low levels of inks used on each plate; often it will print in purple or green and vary within a print run.
One day I sang an aria
that caused a hernia
it was a massive bulge
to the doctor I divulged
that I still had to play
though it caused me massive pain
I wont throw in the towel
just please hold in my bowels
I love my hernia belt
I love my hernia belt
it'll keep my guts inside me
til the end of the show
I've got a little friend down there (not that one)
a different little friend down there
a better one you can't find
to hold in your intestines
a high fashion wrap
that hits beneath the belt
I don't cause a fuss
in velcro I do trust
I love my hernia belt
I love my hernia belt
it'll keep my guts inside me until
I have my surgery
what are they gonna shave
what are they gonna save
when they fix my hernia
hope the doctor doesnt slip
when he cuts into my skin
I just want to piss in one direction!
now I love my hernia repair
I love my hernia repair
it'll kep my guts inside me for the rest of my life