khaki

• '' I've taken a lot of jokes about whether khaki is a color or a style of pants, '' Parrott recently explained with a smile. —  The Oak Ridger Home RSS
• NT used to have the microfiber one in tan / khaki, and if they still had it, I probably would have gotten that instead. —  D*I*Y Planner - Comments
• The word khaki is Indian for earth, or dust-colored Lawn.= Lawn is a light-weight single cloth wash fabric, weighing from one and one fourth to two and one fourth ounces per yard, and in widths from thirty-six to forty inches finished. —  Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades
• I knew that stretching away to the southeast of us and to the northwest was a line some two hundred miles long, measuring it from tip to tip, where sundry millions of men in English khaki and French fustian and German shoddy- wools were fighting the biggest fight and the most prolonged fight and the most stubborn fight that historians probably will write down as having been fought in this war or any lesser war. —  Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front
• The Austrians have most of their soldiers in khaki, and the Russians all wear khaki-colored cloth. —  America's War for Humanity

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