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using or wearing camouflage (= plants, paints, or clothes used to hide soldiers and equipment so that they cannot be seen against the area around them): He was surrounded by camouflaged soldiers. The buildings are carefully camouflaged under trees or dug into the sides of rocky hills.
Textbooks use pictures of peppered moths camouflaged on tree trunks as evidence for natural selection. to hide something, or to hide the truth about something: He camouflaged the payments by listing them as " building materials ". Some industries ' losses are camouflaged by gains in other industries.
Adjective. Replicas of Burberry’s gabardine and war-era trenches are on view in a circle of mannequins, which perch on an organic camouflage rug designed by British contemporary artist and frequent Burberry collaborator Tom Atton Moore.
The tent was camouflaged to avoid detection by infiltrating enemy soldiers. (of an animal or plant ) to have a color or shape that makes it appear to mix with its natural environment so that it cannot be seen or attacked :
1. the exploitation of natural surroundings or artificial aids to conceal or disguise the presence of military units, equipment, etc. 2. (modifier) (of fabric or clothing) having a design of irregular patches of dull colours (such as browns and greens), as used in military camouflage. 3.
camouflaged typically occurs about 0.4 times per million words in modern written English. camouflaged is in frequency band 4, which contains words occurring between 0.1 and 1 times per million words in modern written English.
To camouflage is to disguise, and a camouflage is that which disguises — like the leaf-colored and patterned uniforms worn by soldiers who want to blend in with their natural surroundings. Camouflage evolved from the French camoufler, which was slang for “to disguise.”.
The Royal Artillery were well camouflaged. They walked through the trees to a second hut, cunningly camouflaged against air surveillance. A camouflaged stonefish nestled on a sandy ledge.
Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else. Examples include the leopard 's spotted coat, the battledress of a modern soldier, and the leaf-mimic katydid 's wings.
camouflage, n. in OED Second Edition (1989) 1. 1885–. Disguise, concealment; (now) esp. a means of, or the action of, misleading someone or disguising the truth. 1885. He was also master in the art of camoufflage or disguise, his face being without age and readily changed to any style of physiognomy.
