Beige vs. Fawn

Beigenoun

A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.

Fawnnoun

A young deer.

Beigenoun

Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

Fawnnoun

A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.

Beigeadjective

Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.

Fawnnoun

(obsolete) The young of an animal; a whelp.

Beigeadjective

(informal) Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.

Fawnadjective

Of the fawn colour.

Beigenoun

Debeige.

Fawnverb

(intransitive) To give birth to a fawn.

Beigenoun

a very light brown

Fawnverb

(intransitive) To exhibit affection or attempt to please.

Beigeadjective

of a light grayish-brown color

Fawnverb

(intransitive) To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon).

Beigenoun

a pale sandy fawn colour

‘a beige raincoat’; ‘tones of beige and green’;

Fawnverb

To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.

Beige

Beige 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 been neither bleached nor dyed, hence also the color of natural wool.

Fawnnoun

A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.

Fawnnoun

The young of an animal; a whelp.

‘[The tigress] . . . followeth . . . after her fawns.’;

Fawnnoun

A fawn color.

Fawnnoun

A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy.

Fawnadjective

Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored.

Fawnverb

To bring forth a fawn.

Fawnverb

To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; - often followed by on or upon.

‘You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds.’; ‘Thou with trembling fear,Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest.’; ‘Courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him.’;

Fawnnoun

a color varying around light grayish brown;

‘she wore a dun raincoat’;

Fawnnoun

young deer

Fawnverb

show submission or fear

Fawnverb

try to gain favor by cringing or flattering;

‘He is always kowtowing to his boss’;

Fawnverb

have fawns;

‘deer fawn’;

Fawnnoun

a young deer in its first year

‘a six-month-old roe fawn’;

Fawnnoun

a light brown colour

‘a fawn dress’; ‘soft shades of pale green and fawn’;

Fawnverb

(of a deer) produce young

‘the forest was closed for hunting when the does were fawning’;

Fawnverb

(of a person) give a servile display of exaggerated flattery or affection, typically in order to gain favour

‘congressmen fawn over the President’;

Fawnverb

(of a dog) show slavish devotion, especially by rubbing against someone

‘the dogs started fawning on me’;