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Intended to make the wearer of a garment made of this fabric hard to distinguish from the background
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camouflage
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Word definitions for camouflage in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1917, noun, verb, and adjective, from French camoufler , Parisian slang, "to disguise," from Italian camuffare "to disguise," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps a contraction of capo muffare "to muffle the head." Probably altered by influence of French ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Camouflage is a 1944 American animated short film. It was produced by the First Motion Picture Unit , and was intended to train the United States Military in the use of camouflage against air-raids. In the short, a chameleon explains the basics of camouflage ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB wear ▪ He wore a mottled camouflage jacket and a lightweight stetson and carried an automatic rifle. ▪ He wisely wore camouflage on his trips to Frankfurt: long-term investor brown. ▪ They wore camouflage uniform ...
Usage examples of camouflage.
Lufo found it by stumbling at its lip, a sinister trapezoidal hole in brittle spongy limestone, masked by agarita shrubs that grew at the entrance in perfect camouflage.
They had put a camouflage net over the truck and over the locator and over the bulge of the Bofors mounted beside it.
There was nothing he could do until his bombs dropped but look back into the bombsight, where the fine cross-hairs in the lens were glued magnetically over the target exactly where he had placed them, intersecting perfectly deep inside the yard of his block of camouflaged warehouses before the base of the first building.
Hidden behind leaves and camouflaged with branches, the cannons would be invisible from the river below.
Three camouflaged Ecuadorian soldiers, M-16 rifles in hand, were barreling in her direction.
She was coated in brown, downy feathers, a useful camouflage in the forest fringes where her kind had evolved as hunters of carrion and eggs.
Canyon of the Hohokam into a wide sweep of desert land, bringing them down again before a carefully camouflaged installation.
The taking up of the shipping is being proceeded with by us for camouflage purposes, though it involves a loss in British imports of perhaps 250,000 tons.
Mills Breitenbach, a tech specialist from the San Fran field office, put a hand to his ear while fiddling with some knobs on a metal device camouflaged to look like a Sony minidisc player.
Similar to the Moles camouflage, but designed specifically for night combat.
The Natick Soldier System Center in cooperation with Crye Precision developed the MultiCam Multi Environment Camouflage system.
Regular Army bastard in shiny boots, a nonregulation zipper jacket, and a scarf made from camouflage parachute silk around his neck.
He had copied parts of himself and camouflaged these duplicitous programs as God-algorithms hidden within the code of the surreality that he gave to Ede.
Sean saw that he was young, mid-twenties, with bandoliers of ammunition over both shoulders and a Rastafarian hairstyle, ribbons of camouflage rag braided into his hair.
The Rebels had dug in and were carefully camouflaged, stretched out a thousand meters north and south of the intersection.