greige
About 0.01 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Of clothing, textiles, etc.: neither bleached nor dyed, nor otherwise fully processed; unfinished.
The rolls of greige cloth sat on the factory floor waiting to be printed.
- adjective Of a colour like that of unbleached or undyed fabric, between grey and beige.
- noun A colour like that of unbleached or undyed fabric between grey and beige, closely akin to taupe.
greige:
- noun Clothing, textiles, etc., which have neither been bleached nor dyed, nor otherwise fully processed; greige goods.
Similar words
unbleached ungreyed natural nondyed undyed unpilled unspun ungrayed unweaved unwoven
Often followed by
goods fabric and
Word family
greiges
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