| 单词 | field grey |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfield grey field grey n. and adj. [after German feldgrau, adjective, Feldgrau, noun (c1900)] (a) adj. of the dark grey colour of the uniform worn from 1910 by the infantry of the Imperial German army; (b) n. this colour. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > grey or greyness > [noun] > field grey field grey1911 feldgrau1934 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 590/1 The new service dress is a loose-fitting ‘field-grey’ uniform, except in Jägers, machine-gun detachments and Jägers zu Pferd, who wear grey-green field dress. 1914 Cook County (Illinois) Herald 25 Dec. ‘Well, my man,..you were not badly hurt?’ ‘No,’ the man in the field gray answered. 1921 V. B. Shore Heritage 142 Passing them was a field-gray car, in which sat a slim, well-gowned woman. 1976 Times 1 May 14/1 He..put on the field grey uniform of the Swiss army. 2009 Independent (Nexis) 30 May 42 A Brit who has dressed himself up in German field grey plus rifle and bayonet. < as lemmas |
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