taupe/təʊp/EtymologyBorrowed from French taupe, from Latin talpa (“mole”). Doublet of talpa.adjOf a dark brownish-grey colour.“At five o'clock the patch of daylight above the red-lighted exit door turned taupe, as though a gray curtain had been flung across it; […]”nounA dark brownish-grey colour, the colour of moleskin.