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Beige vs. Fawn — What's the Difference?

Beige vs. Fawn — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Beige and Fawn

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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.

Fawn

A young deer in its first year
A six-month-old roe fawn

Beige

Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

Fawn

A light brown colour
A fawn dress
Soft shades of pale green and fawn

Beige

A very light brown
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Fawn

(of a deer) produce young
The forest was closed for hunting when the does were fawning

Beige

A pale sandy fawn colour
A beige raincoat
Tones of beige and green

Fawn

(of a person) give a servile display of exaggerated flattery or affection, typically in order to gain favour
Congressmen fawn over the President

Beige

A light grayish brown or yellowish brown to grayish yellow.

Fawn

To exhibit affection or attempt to please, as a dog does by wagging its tail, whining, or cringing.

Beige

A soft fabric of undyed, unbleached wool.

Fawn

To seek favor or attention by flattery and obsequious behavior.

Beige

Light grayish-brown or yellowish-brown to grayish-yellow.

Fawn

A young deer, especially one less than a year old.

Beige

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

Fawn

A grayish yellow-brown to moderate reddish brown.

Beige

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

Fawn

A young deer.

Beige

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

Fawn

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

Beige

Debeige.

Fawn

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

Beige

Of a light grayish-brown color

Fawn

(rare) A servile cringe or bow.

Fawn

Base flattery.

Fawn

Of the fawn colour.

Fawn

(intransitive) To give birth to a fawn.

Fawn

(intransitive) To exhibit affection or attempt to please.

Fawn

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

Fawn

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

Fawn

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

Fawn

The young of an animal; a whelp.
[The tigress] . . . followeth . . . after her fawns.

Fawn

A fawn color.

Fawn

A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy.

Fawn

Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored.

Fawn

To bring forth a fawn.

Fawn

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.

Fawn

A color varying around light grayish brown;
She wore a dun raincoat

Fawn

Young deer

Fawn

Show submission or fear

Fawn

Try to gain favor by cringing or flattering;
He is always kowtowing to his boss

Fawn

Have fawns;
Deer fawn

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