Beige vs. Ecru

Beigenoun

A slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.

Beigenoun

Debeige; a kind of woollen or mixed dress goods.

Beigeadjective

Having a slightly yellowish gray colour, as that of unbleached wool.

Beigeadjective

(informal) Comfortably dull and unadventurous, in a way that suggests middle-class suburbia.

Beigenoun

Debeige.

Beigenoun

a very light brown

Beigeadjective

of a light grayish-brown color

Beigenoun

a pale sandy fawn colour

Beige

Beige is variously described as a pale sandy fawn color, a grayish tan, a light-grayish yellowish brown, or a pale to grayish yellow. It takes its name from French, where the word originally meant natural wool that has been neither bleached nor dyed, hence also the color of natural wool.

Ecrunoun

A beige colour.

Ecruadjective

Of a beige colour.

Ecruadjective

Having the color or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen, or the like.

Ecrunoun

a very light brown

Ecrunoun

the light fawn colour of unbleached linen

Ecru

Ecru is the colour of unbleached linen.Traditionally ecru was considered a shade of beige, but beginning in the 19th century it became more precisely defined as . Ecru comes from the French word écru, which means .