A dull, yellowish-brown colour, the colour of dust.
When you've shouted "Rule Britannia", when you've sung "God Save The Queen",When you've finished killing Kruger with your mouth;Will you kindly drop a shilling in my little tambourineFor a gentleman in khaki ordered South?
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Khaki green, a dull green colour.
But being the right shade of khaki or shit-brown is not enough.
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A strong cloth of wool or cotton, often used for military or other uniforms.
1921, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aKoMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA54#v=onepage&q&f=true War work of the Bureau of Standards], no. 46, page 54.
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The aesthetic vocabulary of how people dress now — quiet luxury, coquette, mob wife, coastal grandmother, Y2K core, and every "-core" that came after.
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