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The bedrooms of the new house are carpeted in a color that is sort of brown and sort of pink and totally not my taste. The cable guy said the color is taupe, which is not really a color but a category for undefined colors. In my case, using that linked chart, the color is a mix of taupe brown, beaver, and dark taupe. The fact that I need google to determine the name of the color is reason enough to hate it.

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