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Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets - Additional Information (Detail) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified | 3 Months Ended | 9 Months Ended | 12 Months Ended
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Nov. 30, 2014 | Nov. 30, 2013 | Nov. 30, 2014 | Nov. 30, 2013 | Feb. 28, 2014
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Goodwill impairment |  |  | $ (55,923)us-gaap_GoodwillImpairmentLoss |  | $ (18,626)us-gaap_GoodwillImpairmentLoss
Estimated useful life of asset |  |  | 9 years 8 months 12 days |  | 7 years 1 month 6 days
Amortization of trade names, customer lists, and patent | 1,413 us-gaap_AmortizationOfIntangibleAssets | 1,225 us-gaap_AmortizationOfIntangibleAssets | 4,249 us-gaap_AmortizationOfIntangibleAssets | 2,815 us-gaap_AmortizationOfIntangibleAssets |
Goodwill acquired |  |  | 957 us-gaap_GoodwillAcquiredDuringPeriod |  | 12,024 us-gaap_GoodwillAcquiredDuringPeriod
Wisco and NIC [Member] |  |  |  |  |
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Goodwill acquired |  |  | 12 us-gaap_GoodwillAcquiredDuringPeriod / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = ebf_WiscoAndNicMember |  | 12,000 us-gaap_GoodwillAcquiredDuringPeriod / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = ebf_WiscoAndNicMember
Alstyle Apparel [Member] |  |  |  |  |
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Goodwill impairment |  |  | (55,900)us-gaap_GoodwillImpairmentLoss / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = ebf_AlstyleApparelMember |  | (18,600)us-gaap_GoodwillImpairmentLoss / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = ebf_AlstyleApparelMember
Sovereign Business Forms [Member] |  |  |  |  |
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Goodwill acquired |  |  | 945 us-gaap_GoodwillAcquiredDuringPeriod / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = ebf_SovereignBusinessFormsMember |  |
Apparel Segment [Member] |  |  |  |  |
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Goodwill impairment |  |  | (55,923)us-gaap_GoodwillImpairmentLoss / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = ebf_ApparelSegmentMember |  | (18,626)us-gaap_GoodwillImpairmentLoss / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = ebf_ApparelSegmentMember
Percentage of carrying value of goodwill and impairment |  |  | 88.00%ebf_PercentageOfCarryingValueOverFairValueOfGoodwillForTwoStepGoodwillImpairmentTest / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = ebf_ApparelSegmentMember |  |
Print Segment [Member] |  |  |  |  |
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Goodwill impairment |  |  | 0 us-gaap_GoodwillImpairmentLoss / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = ebf_PrintSegmentMember |  |
Goodwill acquired |  |  | $ 957 us-gaap_GoodwillAcquiredDuringPeriod / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = ebf_PrintSegmentMember |  | $ 12,024 us-gaap_GoodwillAcquiredDuringPeriod / us-gaap_StatementBusinessSegmentsAxis = ebf_PrintSegmentMember
Minimum [Member] |  |  |  |  |
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Estimated useful life of asset |  |  | 1 year |  |
Maximum [Member] |  |  |  |  |
Finite-Lived Intangible Assets [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |
Estimated useful life of asset |  |  | 15 years |  |

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