beige vs putty

beige

noun
  • Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods. 

  • A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool. 

adj
  • Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool. 

  • Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia. 

putty

noun
  • A golf ball made of composition and not gutta-percha. 

  • A fine cement of lime only, used by plasterers. 

  • A form of cement, made from linseed oil and whiting, used to fix panes of glass. 

  • An oxide of tin, or of lead and tin, used in polishing glass, etc. 

verb
  • To fix or fill using putty. 

adj
  • pretty; purdy 

  • Of, pertaining to, or resembling putty. 

How often have the words beige and putty occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )