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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