Ecru vs Ivory - What's the difference?
ecru | ivory |
A beige colour.
Of a beige colour.
* 2005 , Binnie Kirshenbaum, An Almost Perfect Moment
(uncountable) The hard white form of dentine which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals.
A creamy white colour, the colour of ivory.
Something made from or resembling ivory.
(collective singular or in plural) The teeth.
(collective singular or in plural) The keys of a piano.
(slang) A white person.
Made of ivory.
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, title= Resembling or having the colour of ivory.
As adjectives the difference between ecru and ivory
is that ecru is while ivory is made of ivory.As a noun ivory is
(uncountable) the hard white form of dentine which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals.ecru
English
(wikipedia ecru)Alternative forms
*Noun
(-)Adjective
(-)- Miriam fell in love with a tulle-and-lace gown, but Judy returned to the first one they'd looked at, an ecru satin bridal gown...
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*Anagrams
* ----ivory
English
(wikipedia ivory)Noun
See also
* GalalithAdjective
(-)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Men that I knew around Wapatomac didn't wear high, shiny plug hats, nor yeller spring overcoats, nor carry canes with ivory heads as big as a catboat's anchor, as you might say.}}