taupe

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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

Upstairs, in a too tufted and too crowded room directly over the frontal half of the store, the window overlooking the remote sea of city was turning taupe, the dusk of early spring, which is faintly tinged with violet, invading. — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown

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