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Taupe is a colour: a soft grey-brown, somewhere between grey and , quiet and never bright. It works as a noun ('the walls are painted taupe') and as an adjective ('a taupe handbag').
TaupeTaupe is a colour是一種顏色 a soft grey-brown柔和的灰棕色 somewhere between grey and beige介於灰色和米色之間 quiet and never bright低調、絕不鮮豔 It works as a noun它可以當名詞用 ('the walls are painted taupe')（'the walls are painted taupe'） and as an adjective也可以當形容詞用 ('a taupe handbag')（'a taupe handbag'）
This is a word from the world of design — interior , fashion, cosmetics, paint charts. An ordinary person describing a wall would just say ' brown'; a designer, a shop assistant, or a makeup label says taupe.
This is a word from the world of design這是來自設計圈的字 interior decorating, fashion, cosmetics, paint charts室內裝潢、時尚、彩妝、油漆色卡 An ordinary person describing a wall一般人形容一面牆 would just say 'greyish brown'會直接說「灰灰棕棕的」 a designer, a shop assistant, or a makeup label設計師、店員，或彩妝標籤 says taupe則會說 taupe
Because it sounds refined, it is also used to make plain colours sound expensive.
Because it sounds refined因為它聽起來高雅 it is also used to make plain colours sound expensive也被用來讓普通的顏色聽起來昂貴
Be aware that people do not fully agree on where taupe ends and or greige begins — ask three people to point at taupe and you may get three slightly different shades.
Be aware that要注意的是 people do not fully agree on where taupe ends and beige or greige begins人們對於 taupe 到哪裡結束、beige 或 greige 從哪裡開始，並不完全有共識 ask three people to point at taupe請三個人指出 taupe and you may get three slightly different shades你可能會得到三種稍微不同的色調
One more thing worth knowing: it is pronounced like 'tope', one syllable, rhyming with 'hope' — not 'tow-pay'.
One more thing worth knowing還有一件值得知道的事 it is pronounced like 'tope'它的發音像「tope」 one syllable一個音節 rhyming with 'hope'跟「hope」押韻 not 'tow-pay'不是「tow-pay」
組成Borrowed whole from French taupe, which means 'mole' — the small animal that lives underground. The colour is named after the animal's grey-brown fur. The French word goes back to Latin talpa, also 'mole'.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
taupenoun/təʊp/
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A dark brownish-grey colour, the colour of moleskin.
taupeadj/təʊp/
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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; […]
- In the front room, on an old taupe overstuffed sofa, the head of the house lay in a blanket bathrobe, […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。