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prettygoodwordecru (EK-roo, EY-kroo) - n., a pale grayish-yellow color, beige.
Literally, the color of unbleached linen. Per Wikipedia, until the 1930s it was considered a synonym for beige but since then as has been thought of as a somewhat darker shade. Borrowed in the 1830s from French écru, raw, unbleached, from Old French escru, from es-, thoroughly (from Latin ex- in its intensifying sense) + cru, raw (from Latin crudus, raw, from whence crude).
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Literally, the color of unbleached linen. Per Wikipedia, until the 1930s it was considered a synonym for beige but since then as has been thought of as a somewhat darker shade. Borrowed in the 1830s from French écru, raw, unbleached, from Old French escru, from es-, thoroughly (from Latin ex- in its intensifying sense) + cru, raw (from Latin crudus, raw, from whence crude).
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