Definition of ecru
: beige 2
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The ecru shade appears on the back pockets and waistband, while the legs are classic white—and totally opaque, for the record.
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Two square inches is hardly enough to tell a room’s worth of difference between eggshell and ecru.
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Sienna Miller selected an ecru and white pearly tweed jacket from Chanel’s Métiers d'art Paris-Hamburg 2017/18 collection.
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Or maybe ecru, which is one of my favorite words that appears with regularity in the New York Times crossword puzzle.
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In the photo with an ecru background, the royals coordinate by donning various shades of light blue.
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Each pair is high-top and comes in stunning ecru crochet, blue seersucker, indigo denim, ecru denim, white leather, black leather, powder pink leather and midnight blue leather.
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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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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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Definition of ecru for English Language Learners
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: a pale color that is slightly yellow or brown
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