Etymology

Noun

1. A dark brownish-gray colour, the colour of moleskin.

Adjective

1. Of a dark brownish-gray colour.
   • 1915, Ben Hecht, "Life", The Little Review, November,

     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;

   • 1952, Wallace Earle Stegner, "Pop Goes the Alley Cat", Harper's Magazine, February, pp. 42-52,

     In the front room, on an old taupe overstuffed sofa, the head of the house lay in a blanket bathrobe,