27 January 2017
ecru
[ek-roo, ey-kroo]
adjective
1. very light brown in color, as raw silk, unbleached linen, etc.
noun
2. an ecru color.
Also, écru [French ey-kry]
Origin of ecru
1865-1870; French, equivalent to é- completely (< Latin ex- ex-1) + cru raw (< Latin crūdus; see crude )
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Examples from the Web for ecru
Historical Examples
You can take my ecru lace scarf, if you wish, and that will cover most of the spots.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.)
Various
In giving a brownish hue to such light colors as beige, ecru, etc., it is invaluable.
The Practical Ostrich Feather Dyer
Alexander Paul
ecru : Continue the foregoing operation for blue by passing the goods through a solution of prussiate of potash.
Burroughs’ Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
Barkham Burroughs
A nervous tug-of-war was taking place between her right and left hand, with a twisted-up pair of ecru gloves for the cable.
The Shadow
Arthur Stringer
In color it runs from ecru drab to hair-brown with streaks of the latter, and it is very viscid when moist.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
George Francis Atkinson
He was slightly smaller than a load of hay in his belted suit of ecru pongee; he wore a satisfied air and a pleased mustache.
The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon
Richard Connell
Madame had, cried madame’s maid, running to fetch one with little pink flowers and green leaves on an ecru ground.
A Modern Chronicle, Complete
Winston Churchill
If they are of an ecru shade, put a little coffee in the water and they will look like new.
Guide to Hotel Housekeeping
Mary E. Palmer
And the curtains are just simple cotton voiles, ecru in the living and dining rooms, and white in the bedrooms.
A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband
Louise Bennett Weaver
The chief end of man is to witness an ecru coyote and a few absolute human failures like you and me.
Heart’s Desire
Emerson Hough
Anagram
cure
Today’s quote
I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.
– Pete Seeger
On this day
27 January – International Holocaust Memorial Day in remembrance of the 11 million victims of the Nazi holocaust before and during the Second World War. Victims included 6 million Jews (3 million of whom were Polish), 3 million Polish Christians, 2 million gypsies, and millions of others, including Africans, Asians, people with mental or physical disabilities, Communists, Socialist, Unionists, intellectuals, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Slavs, Freemasons, political activists and anyone else either opposed to Nazi ideology, or living in land Hitler wanted (particularly Poland) or who didn’t fit his idea of a perfect master race. The date was chosen because 27 January 1945 was the date that Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz-Birchenau, the largest of the Nazi death camps.
27 January 1756 – birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer. Died 5 December 1791.
27 January 1926 – In London, John Logie Baird publicly demonstrates a revolutionary new invention, the television system.
27 January 1945 – The Soviet Army liberates survivors of the largest Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in Poland, where it is estimated more than 1,000,000 Jews and tens of thousands of others were executed.
27 January 1967 – Outer Space Treaty was signed by 60 countries, including the USA and USSR, prohibiting the placement of weapons of mass destruction in space.
27 January 1973 – the Vietnam War formally ends with a treaty signed between the USA, North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
27 January 1984 – Michael Jackson’s hair catches on fire while he is singing ‘Billy Jean’ during filming of a Pepsi commercial.
27 January 2014 – death of Peter Seeger, American singer-songwriter, musician, activist. Born 3 May 1919.