Which four letter word beginning with E is the yellowish-brown colour of unbleached linen?
Beige 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'. Since at least the 1950s, however, the "color" ecru has been regarded as a different color from beige, presumably in order to allow interior designers a wider palette of colors to choose from. Khaki was designated in the 1930 book "A Dictionary of Color", the standard for color nomenclature before the introduction of computers. The first recorded use of "khaki" as a color name in English was in 1848. Light French beige is
Four-letter word letters. Typical examples include the word "work", implying that work can be unpleasant, or the game of "golf", jokingly referred to as a four-letter word when a player's pastime becomes an exercise in frustration. "Charlotte Observer" journalist Doug Robarchek noted in 1993 how many politicians have names with four letters, "Ever notice how many U.S. politicians have names that are also four-letter words? Ford, Dole, Duke, Bush, Gore ... and how many make us think of four-letter words?" Four-letter word The phrase four-letter word refers to a set of English-language words written with four letters which are considered profane, including