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▪ I. camouflage, n.|ˈkæməflɑːʒ|
[Fr., f. camouflet camouflet.]
The disguising of any objects used in war, such as camps, guns, ships, by means of paint, smoke-screens, shrubbery, etc., in such a way as to conceal it from the enemy; also, the disguise used in this way; freq. attrib.
1917Daily Mail 25 May 4/4 The act of hiding anything from your enemy is termed ‘camouflage’. 1917Ibid. 16 July 5/3 The King paid a visit to what is called a camouflage factory. 1922C. E. Montague Disenchantment viii. 108 A French aerodrome across which the French camouflage painters had simply painted a great white high-road. 1948Sci. News VII. 84 Features..which in a normal colour photograph might escape detection could often be clearly differentiated in this ‘camouflage detection’ film. 1957Granta 9 Mar., We took home a few pieces of camouflage-painted aluminium.
b. transf. and fig.
1918G. B. Shaw Pen Portraits & Reviews (1932) 35 The first necessity of such souls when truth is about, as it always is, is camouflage, or, better still, complete cover. 1920R. Macaulay Potterism i. iii, It's a very laudable object, and needs no camouflage. 1963V. Nabokov Gift iv. 251 Striped and spotted with words, dressed in verbal camouflage, the important idea he wished to convey would slip through.
▪ II. camouflage, v.|ˈkæməflɑːʒ|
[f. the n.]
To conceal by or as by camouflage. So ˈcamouflaged ppl. a., ˈcamouflaging vbl. n.
1917Daily Mail 16 July 5/3 The King saw all the latest Protean tricks for concealing or, as we all say now, for ‘camouflaging’ guns, snipers, observers. 1918W. Owen Let. Apr. (1967) 545 Your portrait is certainly slightly camouflaged. 1919Downing Digger Dialects 15 Camouflaged Aussy, an Englishman serving with the A.I.F. 1920Blackw. Mag. Mar. 332/1 Number One, ensconced in the little camouflaged control. 1921Spectator 23 Apr. 518/2 The house telephone.., its extremely ugly box ‘camouflaged’ with the pattern of the paper. 1922W. J. Locke Tale of Triona ii. 21 These are real eggs, although they're camouflaged in a Chinese scramble. 1924Galsworthy White Monkey ii. xi, Queer how Nature camouflaged her schemes. 1970Daily Mail 24 Mar. 4/9 Television needs a lot more money to improve quality and variety. Colour merely camouflages the same old material. |