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It's khaki if it's beige.

Khaki. It is a color between light fawn and medium light fawn, so khaki is also a synonym for this color. In British or European parlance, it is the type green tinged (slightly dyed) brown weave, or the color of such a weave.

Traditionally the distinctive "KAR-kee" which is often called today "KAH-kee" in Britain and "KAA-kee" in North America. The name comes from the Persian khak meaning earth-colored or dust-colored. The original khaki weave was a twilled (woven into twill) closely woven fabric of linen or cotton.

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Originally, khaki was the color of uniforms in tropical England, similar to the Indian word originally meaning "dusty" brown. Today, in Anglo-Saxon parlance, "khaki" brings to mind brown or even beige. However, the usage in the military is not the same, so there is often confusion.

When khaki was adopted for the uniforms of the British Army in Europe in 1902, the shades chosen were significantly darker and greener than the original khaki. The color adopted by all British Empire troops and the American Expeditionary Force in World War I was also similar, with only minor differences; the latter called the color olive drab, perhaps a better description.

This brownish-green hue was followed by many nations during the two World Wars. We can roughly divide the armies of the first half of the 19th century into two groups according to their color: those who wore "khaki" (brownish-green), including the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the Soviet Union, Japan, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Holland, Turkey, Greece, and so on.

The other type of wear is gray-green, the earliest countries including Germany, Austria, Italy, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania and Scandinavian countries. There are many different colors between the poles of brown-green and gray-green, and they overlap each other to a considerable degree, even within the same army.

In the latter half of World War II, the olive drab of the United States became noticeably greener, moving away from the original shade of khaki. After World War II, most of the member countries participating in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization adopted the style and greenish olive drab color of the U.S. military uniforms (and thus often called olive green).

The color is still known as khaki in many European countries. For example, the word "khaki" has passed into everyday French parlance, but refers to olive green. The tawny color used in World War I is called "moutarde" in French.

Today, few armies still use olive drab or khaki for combat uniforms, and most have switched to camouflage, with the notable exceptions of the warlike Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Austrian Federal Army.

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