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Desert uniform color
Answer for the clue "Desert uniform color ", 5 letters:
khaki
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Word definitions for khaki in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Dust-coloured; of the colour of dust. n. 1 A dull, yellowish-brown color, the colour of dust. 2 khaki green, a dull green colour. 3 A strong cloth of wool or cotton, often used for military or other uniforms. 4 (context rare English) A soldier wearing ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"dust-colored cloth," 1857, from Urdu khaki , literally "dusty," from khak "dust," from Persian. First introduced in uniforms of British cavalry in India (the Guide Corps, 1846); widely adopted for camouflage purposes in the Boer Wars (1899-1902). As an ...
Usage examples of khaki.
One, slender and lithe with dark hair, was clearly female despite her anachronistic and less than flattering khaki uniform.
I could retort to that, Axel came back into the kitchen, now sporting a khaki vest with a ton of pockets and carrying three fishing rods and a small case.
Under it were even baggier knee-length khaki shorts and brown sneakers.
A tall man, dressed in cuffless khaki trousers with a lightweight poplin jacket over a white shirt got out from the right side.
She took a second large safety pin from her handbag, then, pushing the doek with the shilling into the pocket of my khaki shorts, she pinned it to the lining.
The street was basically two rows of khaki tents, twenty-five of them in all, most of them housing four enrollees each.
Then we noticed that one of the khaki uniforms surrounded by a dozen others at the bar was shaped in a disturbingly different and disturbingly familiar way, and that it came with softly wavy brown hiar and a young, animated, unutterably feminine face.
In fact, Major Steuben looked very good indeed in his tailored khaki, rather like a leaf-bladed dagger in an intarsia sheath.
The entrepreneur was one of those moderns who wanted it both ways, wearing a sports jersey and khakis, but sporting an Arafat kaffiyeh to please the fundamentalists.
Softly, voluptuously fertile and sweet-smelling of khaki weed, and old cow manure and thin dust and msasa leaves.
Their beaming faces were surmounted by a Pathan pagri, a length of khaki cloth wound around a dome-shaped, padded kullah, and the loose end of the pagri trailed behind in a shamleh, protecting the back of the neck from the sun.
Hakim turned from the window and glanced down at Qazi, today dressed in clean, faded khakis.
A fox-trot ended, the crowd shifted, and Annie spotted Frank Saulter, not in his official khakis but in country tweeds.
She offered me some shuffly fuzzy-on-the-inside slippers too, also khaki, but enough is enough with the regression to childhood, and I stayed barefoot.
Mia smiled at Syd again, friendly but curious, taking in her shapeless linen jacket, her baggy khaki pants, her cloddish boots and the mannish blouse she wore buttoned all the way to her neck.