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Ecru is a grayish yellow or cream colour. It is still defined by some dictionaries as the colour of unbleached linen , [ 2 ] which it still is in French (approximately #FEFEE0 ). In English, over the years it has come to be used for a quite different, much darker color.
Originally in the 19th century and up to at least 1930, the color ecru meant exactly the same color as beige (i.e. the pale cream color shown above as beige), [17] and the word is often used to refer to such fabrics as silk and linen in their unbleached state. Ecru comes from the French word écru, which means literally "raw" or "unbleached".
Desert is a color that resembles the color of the flat areas of a desert.. The first recorded use of desert as a color name in English was in 1920. [12]The normalized color coordinates for desert are identical to fallow, wood brown and camel, which were first recorded as color names in English in 1000, [13] 1886, [14] [a] and 1916, [16] respectively.
Below is a chart showing the computer web color shades of white. An achromatic white is a white color in which the red, green, and blues codes are exactly equal. The web colors white and white smoke are achromatic colors.
Buff (Latin: bubalinus) [2] [3] is a light brownish yellow, ochreous colour, typical of buff leather. [4] [5] Buff is a mixture of yellow ochre and white: [6] two parts of white lead and one part of yellow ochre produces a good buff, or white lead may be tinted with French ochre alone.
"Auburn" can be used to describe many shades of reddish hair with similar definitions or hues. It is often conflated in popular usage with Titian hair. Whereas Titian hair is a brownish shade of red hair, auburn hair is specifically defined as including the actual color red.
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
A thesaurus or synonym dictionary lists similar or related words; these are often, but not always, synonyms. [15] The word poecilonym is a rare synonym of the word synonym. It is not entered in most major dictionaries and is a curiosity or piece of trivia for being an autological word because of its meta quality as a synonym of synonym.