the average color of the french mole

[image description: a screenshot of a search result preview for the wikipedia page for the color taupe. it shows two image thumbnails, one of a mole and one of a blotch of the color. it reads, “taupe is a dark grey-brown color. the word derives from the french noun taupe meaning ‘mole.’ the name originally referred only to the average color of the french mole, but beginning in the 1940s its usage expanded to encompass a wider range of shades.]

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