I myself remember buying a khaki green overcoat in1969, when the military look was going great guns. 我记得1969年买过一件卡其布做的绿大衣,当时非常流行穿军服。
Of a light olive brown or khaki color. 浅黄褐色的或土黄褐色
khaki
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a sturdy twilled cloth of a yellowish brown color used especially for military uniforms
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of a yellowish brown color
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Khaki \Kha"ki\, n. Any kind of khaki cloth; hence, a uniform of khaki or, rarely, a soldier clad in khaki. In the United States and British armies khaki or cloth of a very similar color is almost exclusively used for service in the field. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Khaki \Kha"ki\ (k[aum]"k[-e]), a. [Hind. kh[=a]k[=i], lit., dusty, dust-colored, fr. Per. kh[=a]k dust.] Of a dull brownish yellow, or drab color; -- applied to cloth, originally to a stout brownish cotton cloth, used in making uniforms in the Anglo-Indian army.
Note: In the United States service the summer uniform of cotton is officially designated khaki; the winter uniform of wool, olive drab. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
colorful \colorful\ adj. 1. having striking color. Opposite of {colorless}.
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate). [WordNet 1.5]
Women with stalls nearby blamed "thugs and hooligans." Youths from high schools, wearing distinctive khaki pants and navy skirts, stoned cars on a highway into the city after they fled tear-gas grenades.
Members of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement wear khaki uniforms and insignia reminiscent of the stormtroopers of Nazi Germany.
The gunmen wore T-shirts and khaki, army-style pants and carried pistols and automatic weapons, according to a witness, Moussa Al Sari, an uncle of one of the slain men.
Younger generations seem hardly more cheerful - in browns and greys and olive drabs, in khaki pith helmets and worn-out military surplus wear they go their sombre way.
After the arraignments, Mr. Volk, dressed in a conservative blue blazer and khaki slacks, shared an elevator with Mr. Crouch and his attorney.
Diana, wearing khaki overalls and pink high-top sneakers, laughed as she operated a 76mm cannon on a Scorpion armored vehicle and a 30mm cannon on a Scimitar armored vehicle.
Color schemes for next fall run the gamut from subdued chocolate, khaki, mustard, camel, gray and wine to neon pinks or greens.
Deafening cheers erupted when the men, led by Walter Sisulu, slowly circled the playing field behind an honor guard of 20 young militants, clad in khaki uniforms and marching in military style.
Men in the gray-blue uniforms of the People's Militia and soldiers in khaki dress uniforms marched briskly past the stand.
However, Vijay Paranjpye, an economist with the governing body of Indian universities, concluded in a study of the project that it is "economically not viable." In the fashionable French trench, tacky khaki is out and polyester is in.
He was handcuffed and clad in prison-issue khaki pants and shirt and wore brown plastic slippers.
A senior official said Sunday that government employees have been told they may dispense with their khaki uniforms in favor of civilian garb in their offices and at ceremonial occasions.
Mr. Filipiak, in jeans and a khaki raincoat, swings a tool bag over a shoulder and climbs the stairs to Mrs. Lozinska's apartment.
Cheers erupted when Sisulu and his colleagues walked onto the playing field and circled the stadium behind an honor guard of 20 young militants, clad in khaki uniforms and marching in military style.
Mr. Ashley was forecasting earnings of "at worst 10 cents a share." Lands' End, a high-flier for most of the 1980s, stumbled in 1989 when its selection of khaki pants and rugby shirts suddenly seemed stale.
In Montgomery, Ill., Processed Plastics Co. is busy changing colors on its array of war toys to desert camouflage khaki from jungle green.
Working in his modest New York office, he wears baggy khaki trousers and a salt-and-pepper sweater.
At the funeral, ANC honor guards in khaki uniforms stood around the coffins giving clenched fist salutes.
Third, unlike the civilians in khaki who voted in 1945, today's all-professional services are a bastion of conservatism with a small 'c' and probably a big one as well. Historically, Labour defence secretaries have been relatively kind to the forces.
A Rolex peeks from beneath his khaki shirt cuff, and a black Lincoln Continental is parked outside.
Noriega was portrayed as Willie Horton in khaki.
Makau was driving through Eldoret in the Rift Valley region of western Kenya last Wednesday when the commissioner, clad in his official pith helmet and khaki uniform, hailed him for a ride.