Assertion: beige | /r/ObjectUse | used as a color term
Facets:
value: in the modern sense in france
type: OTHER
value: from around 1855
type: TEMPORAL
value: in france
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Beige was used as a color term in the modern sense in France beginning approximately 1855–60; the writer Edmond de Goncourt used it in the novel La Fille Elisa in 1877.
text: Beige was used as a color term in the modern sense in France beginning in about 1855-60; the writer Edmond de Goncourt used it in the novel La Fille Elisa in 1877.
text: Beige was used as a color term in France from around 1855 and the word made its way to English by 1887.