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khaki

Persian khākī means 'dusty', from khāk 'earth'; British troops in India dyed their white uniforms dust-coloured in the 1840s–50s and the colour took the Hindustani name. The Boer War and two world wars dressed the world's armies in it, so khaki is now French kaki, Russian khaki, Japanese kāki and Arabic kākī.

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