beige vs sepia

beige

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

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

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

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

sepia

noun
  • A dark, slightly reddish, brown colour. 

  • A sepia-coloured drawing or photograph. 

  • A dark brown pigment made from the secretions of the cuttlefish. 

adj
  • Of a dark reddish-brown colour. 

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