Greige

I was browsing the LibraryThing page, that being an online indexer of book collections (my LibraryThing profile), when I saw a word unfamiliar to me on their blog.

greige (Merriam-Webster Online definition): being in an unbleached undyed state [...] – used of textiles.

Here also is the Answers.com definition, courtesy of Google.

In the case of the LibraryThing blog entry, I at first did not see why the quote was cited. [The original context, for those of you who did not click the link, was in reference to LibraryThing's old design, specifically the bland nature of the bar on the top. The emailer said it was "dangerously close to greige." (exact quote-of-a-quote)] It was an interesting metaphor, to be sure, but not extraordinary enough to merit mention.

Then I looked at the pronunciation of "greige" more closely.