Pronounced: JINK, verb
Notes: Not a word we hear often
Yesterday’s word
The word greige means, as a noun,
- a color between gray and beige
- a fabric or yarn that has not undergone bleaching, dying, or other finishing processes
As an adjective, it means
- of a gray-beige color
- unbleached, undyed, or unfinished
First usage
For definitions 1 above, it came into English in the 1920s. For definitions 2, the word came into English in the mid-1800s
Background / Comments
For the first definitions, our word is merely the combination of gray and beige. For the second definitions, our word came from the French word grège (raw; unfinished), which came from the Italian word greggio, which (probably) came from the Latin word gregius (plain; ordinary).
