A pale pinkish-beige colour — used of tights, plasters, bandages, underwear, make-up and dolls, meaning 'the colour that is meant to disappear against skin'.

A pale pinkish-beige colour一種淡淡的粉膚色——used of tights, plasters, bandages, underwear, make-up and dolls用來形容褲襪、OK繃、繃帶、內衣、化妝品和娃娃，meaning 'the colour that is meant to disappear against skin'意思是「這個顏色貼在皮膚上就該看不出來」。

Here is the honest part your dictionary may not say: the skin it means is white skin. The word was invented at a time when people writing catalogues assumed everybody's skin was pale, so one single pink-beige got called 'flesh colour' as if flesh only came in one shade. For everyone else, a 'flesh-coloured' plaster does not disappear at all.

Here is the honest part your dictionary may not say這裡有個你的字典可能不會講的老實話：the skin it means is white skin它指的皮膚是白人的皮膚。The word was invented at a time when people writing catalogues assumed everybody's skin was pale這個字是在寫型錄的人假設每個人皮膚都很白的那個年代發明的，so one single pink-beige got called 'flesh colour'所以單單一種粉膚色就被叫做『flesh colour』，as if flesh only came in one shade好像肉的顏色只有一種一樣。For everyone else對其他所有人來說，a 'flesh-coloured' plaster does not disappear at all一片『flesh-coloured』的OK繃根本一點都不會消失不見。

Because of this, careful speakers and most companies now avoid the word and say 'nude', 'skin-tone' or, better, name the actual shade. You will still meet it in older books, in art writing about how a painter mixed his colours, and from older speakers who mean nothing at all by it — but it is a word to recognise more than a word to use.

Because of this因為這樣，careful speakers and most companies now avoid the word謹慎的人和大多數公司現在都會避免用這個字，and say 'nude', 'skin-tone' or, better, name the actual shade而改說『nude』、『skin-tone』，或者更好的做法是直接說出真正的顏色。You will still meet it in older books你還是會在比較舊的書裡看到它，in art writing about how a painter mixed his colours在講畫家怎麼調色的藝術文章裡，and from older speakers who mean nothing at all by it還有從一些完全沒有惡意的年長說話者口中聽到——but it is a word to recognise more than a word to use但這是個該認得、而不是該拿來用的字。