Adjective : greige linen. From Dictionary.com.
You probably know the look: clean, unadorned lines; high-gloss wood or stone floors; a muted palette of soft gray, beige and "greige" (a bold combination of the two); glass tables; white bed linens; and, at its most sublime, lacquered kitchens with no visible appliances, pots or stray spoons -- in fact, no signs of culinary activity whatsoever. From Wordnik.com. [The Comforts of Home] Reference
It's a beautiful 'greige' and it looks fantastic with Cloud White trim. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
London Fashion Week, couture tans, "greige" nails and SS10's new take on "beachy hair" fast forwarded us to sunny days and balmy nights. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
"greige" shade debuted on the runway in October, and since going on sale in January, the company says it is its top-selling polish and has sold out three times on. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
Wonderful descriptor courtesy of the never-greige and always-numinous welcomerain. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
The browny-greige wallpaper print has a really interesting texture, almost matelassé. From Wordnik.com. [August 2007] Reference
Through a casual contact, Haslam was set up for an interview with Condé Nast editorial director Alexander Liberman and landed something far more glamorous: a job in the art department of Vogue, then under the editorship of Jessica Daves amid a netherworld of greige interiors, white-gloved assistants, high-society editors such as Babs Simpson and Chessy Rayner, and a would-be novelist on the copydesk, Joan Didion, who, Haslam recalls, spent the mornings crying. From Wordnik.com. [Truly, Madly, Nicky] Reference
Farrow & Ball's Light Gray is a very similar warm gray, almost a greige. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
His work team thought the best option was bamboo in its greige form, which is undyed. From Wordnik.com. [Green Options] Reference
Kelly is a slate blue gray shade, a unique shade with all the greige going on out there. From Wordnik.com. [Product Girl] Reference
So with a spadeful of attitude, forget that greige is nobody's best colour, and plunge right in. From Wordnik.com. [Top stories from Times Online]
Early Morning Mist (#1528): "Somewhere between gray and beige" is this versatile neutral "greige.". From Wordnik.com. [Reader's Digest] Reference
She was decked out in a pair of cuffed boyfriend jeans, grey stacked heel ankle boots, a greige cashmere sweater and a bracelet sleeved mink. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
I decided it was time to unveil my newest purchase: a fashion-forward greige silk dress, very loose cut, with sleeves over the elbow and hem just skimming the knee. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
I'm not in love with the purple but that charcoal grey looks nice and I can see it being very lovely in a greige, a cream, and a yummy chocolate brown. atlantadesigner on 2008-09-18 17: 09: 24 view atlantadesigner's. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
Selling, general and administration costs jumped 28.4 percent on more spending on product development, a liaisons office in Pakistan from which it buys 50-60 percent of its greige imports and another in Bangladesh for marketing. From Wordnik.com. [LBO-Lanka Business Online] Reference
My boyfriend just moved into an almost identical apartment which, while it has some of the most beautiful details I've ever seen in an affordable NYC apartment, also has tea-rose wallpaper, greige ceilings, hideous water-damaged carpets, and mismatched patchy linoleum. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
We're redesigning our office here at work, and I've put forth this kind of idea, a greige overall paint color, and then allowing each team member to have a bright pop of color on one wall in their office - if we were going with these combos in that sort of idea, I love the coffee and indigo. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
And we're calling this "greige" now. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
(greige?) as the circle in the carpet. creative license on April 10th 2009 at 1: 16pm view creative license's. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
Julius tshirt - greige - size 2. From Wordnik.com. [superfuture] Reference
Reddish-greige. From Wordnik.com. [Things We Saved in the Fire] Reference
Einstein might also spout arcane words like beidellite, corporeity, cuneiform, deice, deictic, deionize, eidolon, exigencies, femininity, gaseity, greige, hermaphrodeity, heterogeneity, homogeneity, leifite, leister, leitmotif, Manichaeism, meiosis, mythopoeic, peiramater, reive, rheic, seity, sulphureity, weibullite, weir, xanthoproteic, zein, and zeitgeist (another double). From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1] Reference
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