ecru

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Stitch the very tips of the petals in ecru, and then shade down each petal using the 3 colours of pink - from lightest to darkest.

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  • She just wanted to get back to her Society Hill town house, where she could retreat into a comforting shell of ecru-colored walls and silk-covered sofas. —  The Next Accident by Lisa Gardner
  • Streaked across ecru-colored walls, splattered onto oil canvases, pooled on parquet floors and century-old silk carpets. —  The Next Accident by Lisa Gardner
  • The large stage was empty of everything except a baby grand piano and a pianist, and Lucy DeVore, script in hand, dressed only in an ecru-colored lace-trimmed teddy and matching tap pants. —  Death Dance - Fairstein
  • One room I liked particularly; the walls were covered with the coarsest kind of ecru linen, on which were sewed pink pigeons cut out of cretonne; even the ceiling had its pigeons flying away in the distance. —  In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875
  • The first look, for instance, was a strapless jumpsuit with a boxy little pagoda-shouldered jacket striped in black and ecru, like something from Glasgow's Arts and Crafts movement (Chris Kane featured a similar motif in his show earlier in the day). —  Style.com: Daily Fashion Show Pictures
 

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  1. French écru, raw, unbleached, from Old French escru : es-, intensive pref. (from Latin ex-; see ex-) + cru, raw (from Latin crūdus; see kreuə- in Indo-European roots).
 

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