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Recent Examples of ecru from the Web
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The green hues - also used in up lighting -- complemented the party's color palette of white, ecru, gold, and silver.
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And what a car for us two chinchillas looking to detox: a 1960 Cadillac El Dorado in ecru with a Coke-bottle red interior.
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The restaurant is charmingly old school with its walls newly painted in hues of ecru and charcoal, and banquettes reupholstered in a floral pattern.
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Buffett, an art major in college, led the transformation: The brick walls went from a bland ecru to camouflage, with a cut-out illustration of military conflicts from World War I’s European theater to Vietnam, wrapping around the building.
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An image released by the magazine shows her in an ecru midcalf trumpet skirt with a white windowpane print and matching belted shell.
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The folder is, at first glance, unremarkable: gray, archival, tied with a small, neat ecru ribbon.
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In a sea of white, ecru and ivory, two major players in the bridal game were seeing red for Spring 2013.
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Origin and Etymology of ecru
French écru, literally, unbleached, raw, from Old French escru, from es- completely (from Latin ex-) + cru raw, from Latin crudus — more at raw
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: a pale color that is slightly yellow or brown
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