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khaki
Khaki (, Canada and ) is a color, a light shade of yellow-brown. ''Khaki'' is a loanword incorporated from Hindustani (Urdu) ख़ाकी/خاکی (meaning "soil-colored") and is originally derived from the Persian: (:xɒːk) (''Khâk'', literally meaning "soil"), which came to English from British India〔(Dictionary Meaning: ''Khaki'' ); TheFreeDictionary; Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Encyclopedia〕 via the British Indian Army.
Khaki has been used by many armies around the world for uniforms, including camouflage. It has been used as a color name in English since 1848 when it was first introduced as a military uniform, and was called both drab and khaki〔Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India, being extracts from the letters of Major WSR Hodson, edited by G. Hodson (London, 1859)〕 - khaki being a translation of the English drab light-brown color.〔Maerz and Paul ''A Dictionary of Color'' New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 197; Color Sample of Khaki: Page 49 Plate 13 Color Sample J7〕 A khaki uniform is often referred to as khakis.
In Western fashion, it is a standard color for smart casual dress trousers for civilians, which are also often called ''khakis''.
==Origin==
Khaki was first worn in the Corps of Guides that was raised in December 1846 as the brain-child of Sir Henry Lawrence (1806-1857) Resident at Lahore, and Agent to the Governor-General for the North-West Frontier. Lawrence chose as its commandant Sir Harry Lumsden supported by William Stephen Raikes Hodson as Second-in-Command to begin the process of raising the Corps of Guides for frontier service from British Indian recruits at Peshawar, Punjab. Initially the border troops were dressed in their native costume, which consisted of a smock and white pajama trousers made of a coarse home-spun cotton, and a cotton turban, supplemented by a leather or padded cotton jacket for cold weather. For the first year (1847) no attempt was made at uniformity. Subsequently in 1848 Lumsden and Hodson decided to introduce a drab (khaki) uniform〔"Khaki Uniform 1848-49: First Introduction by Lumsden and Hodson", Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, JSAHR 82 (Winter 2004) pp 341-347〕 which Hodson commissioned his brother in England to send them – as recorded in Hodson's book of published letters, ''Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India''.〔 It was only at a later date, when supplies of drab (khaki) material was unavailable, did they improvise by dying material locally with a dye prepared from the native mazari palm. Some believe the gray drab/khaki color it produced was used historically by Afghan tribals for camouflaging themselves. The mazari could not, however, dye leather jackets and an alternative was sought: Cloth was dyed in mulberry juice which gave a yellowish drab shade. Subsequently all regiments, whether British or Indian, serving in the region had adopted khaki uniforms for active service and summer dress. The original khaki fabric was a closely twilled cloth of linen or cotton.
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