"KHAKI'S" ORIGIN
"When a certain brownish-drab cotton cloth was made for uniforms intended to be worn in hot countries, a name had to be found for it, and somebody called it "khaki," from the .. Persian word meaning "dust." • An uneasy sort of word, yet obviously right, because khaki has become a deßnite colour with a very definite meaning of its own
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 135, 9 June 1937, Page 17
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61"KHAKI'S" ORIGIN Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 135, 9 June 1937, Page 17
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