Crossword-Solution: ECRU 4 letters, 605 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

The windows of the room were heavily draped in sombre brocade and ecru lace, in which the initials of the family were very beautifully worked.

One lost the contour of faces and figures--indeed, any effect of line whatever--and there was only the color of bodices past counting, the shimmer of fabrics soft and firm, silky and sheer: red, mauve, pink, blue, lilac, purple, ecru, rose, yellow, cream, and white, all the colors that an impressionist finds in a sunlit landscape, with here and there the dead shadow of a frock coat.

Ecru baby Irish--that's Palliser's color after he's read his letters.” “I dare say the fellow's in a devil of a mess, if the truth were known,” the duke said.

Lefevre was a country dame, a widow, one of these half peasants, with ribbons and bonnets with trimming on them, one of those persons who clipped her words and put on great airs in public, concealing the soul of a pretentious animal beneath a comical and bedizened exterior, just as the country-folks hide their coarse red hands in ecru silk gloves.

She wears an underdress of pale green silk, draped with an overdress of thin ecru canvas embroidered with gold.