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Camouflage   /kˈæməflˌɑʒ/   Listen
Camouflage

verb
1.
Disguise by camouflaging; exploit the natural surroundings to disguise something.





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"Camouflage" Quotes from Famous Books



... and intimate friend of the Kaiser, he left a letter with his will asking the German Government carefully to consider his wishes. He says plainly that all of the statements that Berlin never intended to annex Belgium were pure camouflage. He urges the Berlin office to flatly declare its purpose never to give up a foot of the Belgian coast nor an acre of the conquered territory of north ...
— The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon • Newell Dwight Hillis
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... in there," said Blake, when they had drawn near and had discovered that the ruins of the concrete dugout had been covered with brush, to "camouflage" it from ...
— The Moving Picture Boys on the War Front - Or, The Hunt for the Stolen Army Films • Victor Appleton
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... is very interesting to note the increase of attention given to camouflage. It occurred to some one—the wonder is that it did not occur to him sooner—that a mud-coloured tiger, a tiger with a khaki skin, would be more visible, not less visible, than a tiger with its natural bright stripes. It was our seamen who first grasped the importance of this truth and ...
— A Padre in France • George A. Birmingham
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... to say," asked the deputy, with a smile, "that in all this camouflage, as you call it, M. de Gorne the elder would act as ...
— The Eight Strokes of the Clock • Maurice Leblanc
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... walking through the back yard of the hotel whistling shrilly "Yankee Doodle." It happened that his father was an ex-Confederate and "Dixie" was more to the boy's taste, but he enjoyed the flavor of the camouflage he was employing. It fitted into his new role of Bud Proctor, Scout of ...
— A Man Four-Square • William MacLeod Raine
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... blameless life, that he was arduous, did not swear, was emaciated with fasting and refused to participate in the vain recreations of his fellows. He was, indeed, overserious and took his religion too hard. This offensive parading as an angel of light was explained as the devil's camouflage. No one tried to find out what the heretic really thought or what were the merits of his divergent beliefs. Because he insisted on expressing his conception of God in slightly unfamiliar terms, the heretic was often ...
— The Mind in the Making - The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform • James Harvey Robinson
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... particular ambition. I suppose I could have gone into the Camouflage Corps if I'd taken the trouble to ask. But what's the use of trying to ...
— With Those Who Wait • Frances Wilson Huard
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... what you mean," said the Chief. "I always tell my young men to be wary when a man smiles too much. Smiles are sometimes camouflage, to cover up something that mustn't be seen underneath! Strangwise is a ...
— Okewood of the Secret Service • Valentine Williams
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Words linked to "Camouflage" :   concealing, covert, gloss, screen, color, material, fabric, concealment, mask, semblance, hiding, cloth, textile, colour, cover


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