How to Use ecru in a Sentence
ecru
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Grab it in black like Oprah, or shop it in spring-ready ecru or latte.
—Nicola Fumo, Peoplemag, 26 Apr. 2023
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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.
—Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Apr. 2012
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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.
—Emily Farra, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2018
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Shown in neutral ecru, the shoe comes in 26 different colors and prints.
—Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
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The style is also available in a medium and small size, and camel and ecru colorways.
—Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 19 July 2023
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The plates, cups, bowls, and pitcher use the same shade of ecru, but they’re illustrated with soft blue sketches of grass.
—Liz Stinson, Curbed, 16 Aug. 2019
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Two square inches is hardly enough to tell a room’s worth of difference between eggshell and ecru.
—Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
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The folder is, at first glance, unremarkable: gray, archival, tied with a small, neat ecru ribbon.
—Sarah Wildman, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2016
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Available in either pale pink or ecru, this roomy bag is large enough to house your daily essentials.
—Melissa Lee, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2020
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Crinkled linen jackets in ecru and tans appeared light as air, complemented by sheer skirts and matching tops to counter the linen.
—Kevin Leblanc, ELLE, 16 Mar. 2023
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This muted ecru color goes with anything and will never go out of style, but packs a more stylish punch than your standard black or white sneaker.
—Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 7 Mar. 2023
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These monochrome ecru canvas sneakers will definitely get us to that state of mind.
—Isaiah Freeman-Schub, Robb Report, 16 Mar. 2023
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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.
—Ken Otterbourg, Longreads, 24 Feb. 2018
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Stacks of firewood echo the stairs’ rigid lines, and the hall is bare except for a collection of straw hats that Alegre’s girlfriend, Cristina Carulla, hung on an ecru plaster wall.
—Lauren Collins, New York Times, 11 May 2018
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The green hues - also used in up lighting -- complemented the party's color palette of white, ecru, gold, and silver.
—Sue Strachan, NOLA.com, 10 July 2017
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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.
—Hannah Elliott, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2017
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Decorators offer expert advice on using ecru as the new go-to color in your home.
—Kelsey Mulvey, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
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In the photo with an ecru background, the royals coordinate by donning various shades of light blue.
—Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2017
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The pieces keep in a warm family of hues — terracotta, ecru and slate —and leverage timeless floral prints so nothing feels too trend-driven.
—Isabel Greenberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Sep. 2018
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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.
—Suzanne Loudermilk, baltimoresun.com, 27 Apr. 2017
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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.
—Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2016
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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.
—Alyssa Hardy, Teen Vogue, 12 Sep. 2017
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Mix in different shades like ecru, alabaster, and ivory that will create a visual separation between your layers to amp up the visual interest.
—Lauren Hubbard, ELLE Decor, 1 May 2019
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Grab it in black like Oprah, or shop it in spring-ready ecru or latte.
—Nicola Fumo, Peoplemag, 26 Apr. 2023
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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.
—Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Apr. 2012
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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.
—Emily Farra, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2018
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Shown in neutral ecru, the shoe comes in 26 different colors and prints.
—Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
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The style is also available in a medium and small size, and camel and ecru colorways.
—Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 19 July 2023
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The plates, cups, bowls, and pitcher use the same shade of ecru, but they’re illustrated with soft blue sketches of grass.
—Liz Stinson, Curbed, 16 Aug. 2019
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Two square inches is hardly enough to tell a room’s worth of difference between eggshell and ecru.
—Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
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