khaki

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A light olive brown to moderate or light yellowish brown.
• noun A sturdy cloth of this color.
• noun A uniform made of this cloth.
• noun Pants made of a twilled cotton fabric of this color or another solid color.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Dustcolored or claycolored: adopted from Hindu use.
• noun A kind of light drab or chocolate-colored cloth used for the uniforms of some East Indian regiments.
• Made of the cloth known as khaki (without direct reference to color).
• noun A soldier clad in khaki.
• noun The cause and the policy represented by the khaki-clad military forces operating in South Africa in 1899–1902, and support of the British government in its war policy at that time: as, to vote khaki, that is, to support the government and its measures in carrying on the Boer war.
• noun The bonds issued by the British government in raising money to continue the Boer war.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Of a dull brownish yellow, or drab color; -- applied to cloth, originally to a stout brownish cotton cloth, used in making uniforms in the Anglo-Indian army.
• noun Any kind of khaki cloth; hence, a uniform of khaki or, rarely, a soldier clad in khaki. In the United States and British armies khaki or cloth of a very similar color is almost exclusively used for service in the field.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A dull, yellowish-brown colour, the colour of dust.
• noun Khaki green, a dull green colour.
• noun A strong cloth of wool or cotton, often used for military or other uniforms.
• noun South Africa, slang A British person (from the colour of the uniform of British troops).
• adjective Dust-coloured; of the colour of dust.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective of a yellowish brown color
• noun a sturdy twilled cloth of a yellowish brown color used especially for military uniforms