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Olive drab

noun

A dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown. Synonym: drab.

Military uniform of the United States Army; made from cloth of a dull olive color. Synonym: olive-drab uniform.

A cloth of an olive-brown color used for military uniforms.

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"Olive drab" Quotes from Famous Books

... sun-drenched Saturdays dedicated by a growing tradition to this or that national expression, the Ninety-ninth Regiment, to a flare of music that made the heart leap out against its walls, turned into a scene thus swept clean for it, a wave of olive drab, impeccable row after impeccable row of scissors-like legs advancing. Recruits, raw if you will, but already caparisoned, sniffing and scenting, as it were, for the great ...

— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various

... laid for the occasion by the railroad, and on these long trains, each carrying militia, had been shunted. Clad all in khaki, or, rather, in the substitute adopted by the American army as more serviceable and less easy to distinguish at a distance, a stout cloth of olive drab, thousands of sturdy militiamen were standing at ease, waiting for orders to move. Field guns, too, and horses, for the mounted troops, were being unloaded, and the scene was one of the greatest activity. Hoarse cries filled the ...

— The Boy Scout Automobilists - or, Jack Danby in the Woods • Robert Maitland