Definitions
Etymologies
- From French écru ("raw, unbleached"). (Wiktionary)
- 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). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“What I mean is some pages are bright white, one kind of ecru and another is deep teal.”
“Beneath the luxurious coat, Sabrina wore an ecru angora turtleneck sweater over ecru wool gabardine slacks.”
“Equally eye-catching in a light olive, four button, single-breasted suit with an ecru cotton shirt and olive silk jacquard pattern tie was his best friend, Julian, whose outfit was complemented by brown calfskin oxfords.”
“As a designer, I know I could easily whip myself up some white confection or even ecru -- based on my age and shaded past to Sashay Shante down the aisle.”
The Huffington Post: Malcolm Harris: The Dilemma of Gay Marriage: And What to Wear?
“They'll use simple ecru paper and black ink, which are ultimately saying, 'I don't want people to know everything about me.”
“Spray paint ecru to heat searing through my fingers I'm leaving this block of farce we've inhabited and lost: the rights to sleep facedown on canvas, away from red taxis and men shuffling in and out of banks, briefcases in hands to waste their lives; the rights to swing glass doors to the garden, benches to roll beer bottles and halve embraces to dark bird songs.”
“I want the pads, if I get them, to be plain black or grey or ecru like my underwear.”
“If you can't tell the difference between ecru, cream, off-white, and eggshell, we're going to date.”
The Huffington Post: Mike Alvear: How to Find Higher Quality Guys on Gay Dating Sites
“AFP/Getty Images A pink and ecru silk taffeta and tulle dress by Mr. Galliano for the Christian Dior Haute Couture Spring 2000 collection.”
The Wall Street Journal: Galliano's Designs Through the Years
“It was made of an ecru canvas, fastened by clasps and, instead of being stuck or pasted on the front, the address label was stitched on.”
The Wall Street Journal: Taking a Village to Design a Living Space
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ecru’.
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Uncommon Colours
azure, myrtle, periwinkle, viridian, jade, emerald, lime, chartreuse, asparagus, celadon, harlequin, olive and 147 more...
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Colour Me Happy
violet, lavender, rose, eggshell, mauve, fuschia, grey, azure, almond, sienna, purple, periwinkle and 71 more...
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jonasword's list
My words unusual strange new clever or stupid
puce, ecru, magenta, mauve, taupe, azure, cerulean, celadon, cinnabar, viridian, vermilion, ultramarine and 6 more...
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Brown
chocolate, chestnut, coffee, beige, clay, bronze, copper, camel, chamoisee, tan, wenge, umber and 16 more...
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Surprising four-letter words
I imagine most of these will be Anglo-Saxon, not likely to crop up in the average day's conversation, and thus excellent for Scrabble. ("most" is too common, likewise "will" and even "crop", in an...
blet, quim, clit, buff, sire, wiki, blog, loam, waft, heft, mare, lilt and 68 more...
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All The Words
I enjoy collecting words, for I have no fear of them ever running out.
anacoluthon, defenestration, hypnopomp, hypnagogue, idioglossia, panopticon, tatterdemalion, abalone, caltrop, miasma, paroxysm, smalt and 491 more...
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onomatopoeia - versions of
definition look &/or sounds like the word, feels like the word,
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Colors
Words for colors, including things so associated with a color that they can be used in reference to a color.
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, purple, navy, lavender, turquoise, chartreuse and 218 more...
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Good Words
fenestering, cetic, immanent, quickening, archetypal, shibboleth, soma, wetware, heritable, Apotheosis, halcyon, cellar door and 482 more...
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cross words
the good ole boys of the nyt crossword puzzle
oleo, oreo, stlo, amie, ares, eros, erato, sloe, ogee, apse, enola, ecru and 94 more...
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Really Cool Four-Letter Words
I marvel at the amazing variety of four-letter words in the English language. And that's not even counting really common (to me) words like fuck.
ibis, pelf, sofa, iota, oboe, lava, icon, sped, puha, pulp, puma, kyat and 150 more...
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color me mauve
color words
albescent, ecru, eggshell, mauve, taupe, ochre, ashen, goldenrod, gamboge, cream, saffron, mustard and 109 more...
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inkhorn's Words
inkhorn, aplomb, apotheosis, asinine, avatar, bombastic, boorish, bromide, bucolic, cagey, canvass, digress and 991 more...
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Life is just a four-letter word
Everyone's got their favorites. Here are some of mine.
snit, hobo, minx, kiln, loll, pelf, yegg, ugly, bumf, brio, biro, haha and 92 more...
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just words.
coquette, solecism, peripherally, recrudescence, viscid, turpitude, sententious, light-heeled, interminably, unflappable, palpably, solicitous and 215 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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