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camouflage

camouflage

19 4.6
Cloth with green, brown, and black shapes used to hide people in nature
  • noun
  • /ˈkæməˌflɑːʒ/
translation icon : camuflaje
  • The soldier wore camouflage to blend in with the forest during the mission.
  • camouflage fatigues
  • camouflage nets

Then you pan up and Blake is in this camouflage coat.

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Examples

  • At this time as well, that ship was given the distinctive dazzle camouflage which we've talked about many times.

  • Nuer scouts, daubed in yellow camouflage, appear out of the rocks.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • We're wearing the wrong camouflage.

  • And I had on, again, my camouflage pants, Camouflage jacket, camouflage ball cap.

  • They were using them for camouflage against aircraft.

  • A few minutes later, this man appeared, dressed in a brand-new camouflage jumpsuit.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Some enter by night; others wear camouflage and puff boots to muffle their tracks.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • The oddity is the army men and women assembled at the barn in camouflage fatigues.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • Bob was a large man outfitted in olive drab camouflage, his pants stuffed into gray rubber boots.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • His face was obscured by greasepaint, and he wore a borrowed, loose-fitting camouflage jumpsuit, vest, and cap.

    Fiction book (1995)

Synonyms

camo
vscamouflage
  • Informal
13 6.8

A fabric with a green, brown, and black pattern that helps people blend into nature

is described as fabric showing splotches rather than stressing the printing method
ghili
vscamouflage
  • Jargon
9.9

A loose suit of cloth or leaves that hides a person in nature

is flat printed fabric designed for concealment rather than three dimensional disguise
apatetic coloration
vscamouflage
  • Specialized
9.9

Body colour that helps an animal blend into where it lives to avoid being seen

is an artificial patterned fabric used by people rather than natural animal coloring
cryptic coloration
vscamouflage
  • Specialized
7.1

Body pattern that helps an animal blend into the background to avoid being seen

is man made printed fabric used as clothing to hide rather than animal pattern
protective coloration
vscamouflage
  • Specialized
4.4

Coloring on an animal that helps it hide from predators

is used as printed fabric for hiding people not primarily to avoid predators

Antonyms

A thing that has strong, vivid colors

How Concealing

ghili
  • Jargon
9.9
camouflage
19 4.6
netting
12 2.7

Surface Forms

camouflage singular
camouflages plural

Etymology

Camouflage comes from the French camoufler 'to disguise', and in war people used special patterned cloth to mix with trees and ground. That's why camouflage fabric with green and brown splotches helps you 'blend in' with nature.