Literary notes about beige (AI summary)
In literature, beige is often employed as a versatile hue—portraying both the soft elegance of attire and the understated character of surroundings. For instance, authors describe nervous elegance with characters clad in soft beige‑coloured silk ([1]) or highlight the subtle transition in a character’s hair, where beige‑blond locks frame an expressive face ([2]). Beige also defines interior spaces, from worn beige sheets strewn across a rumpled bed ([3]) to thick beige carpets that echo the quiet routine of everyday life ([4]). Even landscapes are tinged with this muted color, as seen in the barren beige hills near Government Spring, evoking a sense of stark realism ([5]). This recurring motif underscores beige as a symbol of both refined simplicity and the familiar textures of everyday existence.
- Alma Remsen, to-day in a costume of soft beige-coloured silk weave, looked nervous and worried.
— from The Deep Lake Mystery by Carolyn Wells - De Grandin's slender brows arched upward till they nearly met the beige-blond hair that slanted sleekly backward from his forehead.
— from Pledged to the Dead by Seabury Quinn - It was empty, the bed rumpled and beige sheets on the floor.
— from Life Blood by Thomas Hoover - He was charging down the hall, feeling knee‑deep in the thick beige carpet.
— from Syndrome by Thomas Hoover - By 1944, overuse had so stripped the grasslands near Government Spring that you could hardly find a bunch of chino on the bare beige hills.
— from Big Bend National Park, Texas by United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications
