Crossword clues for khaki
khaki
- Trousers material
- Soldier material?
- Army uniform color
- Military uniform's cloth
- Light olive-brown
- Dull brownish-yellow
- Base shade?
- Slacks shade
- Military shade
- Material name derived from a Persian word for "dust"
- Chinos color
- Army-uniform color
- Army colour
- Army color
- Yellow-brown material for casual pants
- Yellow-brown material for army uniforms
- Type of casual pants
- Sturdy twilled fabric
- Shade for soldiers
- Park-ranger garb material, often
- Pants color
- Olive drab
- Mufti's opposite
- Military uniform color
- Material in many military uniforms
- Light yellowish-brown
- Dull uniform color
- Desert uniform color
- Common military color
- Colour used for military uniforms
- Color often seen in military uniforms
- Cocoa relative
- Camo color
- Business casual material
- Army uniform colour
- Army uniform cloth
- Army uniform
- Army fabric
- "Dust-colored," in Hindustani
- Uniform material, sometimes
- Uniform hue?
- Uniform shade
- Park ranger's uniform color
- Dull yellowish brown
- Uniform choice
- Uniform fabric
- Uniform coloring
- Military wear
- Material for a military uniform
- Yellow-brown shade
- Color whose name comes from Urdu
- Alternative to denim
- Military uniform material
- A sturdy twilled cloth of a yellowish brown color used especially for military uniforms
- Service color
- Uniform cloth
- Military material
- Military hue
- Material for work?
- Military fabric colour
- Military colour
- Material used in making sheikh a kilt
- Colour of military uniforms
- Knight interrupts King greeting endless military stuff
- Sturdy twill used for army uniforms
- Fabric sounding like something driver should carry
- Two kilos I cut with hot American brown
- Uniform colour of Gurkha kit
- Brown shade
- Shade of brown
- Yellowish brown cloth used for army pants
- Trouser material
- Pants fabric
- Pants material
- Army uniform material
- Dull color
- Denim alternative
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
colorful \colorful\ adj.
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having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing; prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled]
Syn: colourful.
striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious; flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty; picturesque]
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having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and monochrome.
Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden; azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue; blushful, blush-colored, rosy; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy; brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow; caramel, caramel brown; carnation; chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured; mousy, mouse-colored; ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive; orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish; purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red; rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown; sorrel, brownish-orange; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured; tan; tangerine; tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red; yellow, yellowish; yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue); coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress; hazel; honey, honey-colored; hued(postnominal); magenta; maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green; sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark, light.]
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
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 adjective from 1863. Related: Khakis.
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 a khaki uniform. 5 (context South Africa slang English) A British person (from the colour of the uniform of British troops).
WordNet
adj. of a yellowish brown color
n. a sturdy twilled cloth of a yellowish brown color used especially for military uniforms
Wikipedia
Khaki is a color.
Khaki may also refer to:
Khaki (, Canada and ) is a color, a light shade of yellow-brown. Khaki is a loanword incorporated from Hindustani ( Urdu or Hindi) ख़ाकी/خاکی (meaning "soil-colored") and is originally derived from the Persian: (Khâk, literally meaning "soil"), which came to English from British India via the British Indian Army.
Khaki has been used by many armies around the world for uniforms, including camouflage. It has been used as a color name in English since 1848 when it was first introduced as a military uniform, and was called both drab and khaki—khaki being a translation of the English drab light-brown color. A khaki uniform is often referred to as khakis.
In Western fashion, it is a standard color for smart casual dress trousers for civilians, which are also often called khakis.
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.