khaki

IPA: kˈɑki

A dull, yellowish-brown colour, the colour of dust.
Khaki green, a dull green colour.
A strong cloth of wool or cotton, often used for military or other uniforms.
(rare) A soldier wearing a khaki uniform.
(South Africa, derogatory, slang) A British person (from the colour of the uniform of British troops, originally in the Second Boer War; compare rooinek). (In this sense the plural generally is khakies.)
(often in plural) Khaki clothing or uniform.

Examples of "khaki" in Sentences

More accurately, the correct shade of "khaki" is the color of "Multani Mitti", meaning "the mud of Multan".
At first I didn't like it but when you see all the kids waiting for the bus in khaki's and polo shirts it's pretty impressive.
Linen no mater what color even "khaki" is limited to late spring - Easter through the summer and should probably not be seen after mid September.
Ciara and Rihanna both picked out the Isadora Deluxe bag in khaki and Rihanna said she not only loved the color, but that the bag was really beautiful as well.
The assailants, dressed in khaki pants and armed with AK-47 assault rifles, grenades and suicide vests, parked a gray Dodge sport-utility vehicle near the rear of the church.
He was being passed by a youngish woman in khaki slacks and white running shoes and a yellow baseball hat tipped rakishly forward on her head, as if her hair were too bulky, too springy, to fit into it.
The word "khaki," derived from the Hindi word for dust, traditionally refers to a specific color -- a shade of tan or beige -- and the term was used as far back as the 1840s to refer to the cotton twill uniforms worn by British colonial forces in India.