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Synonyms for camouflaged

Grammar : Adj
Spell : kam-uh-flahzh
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkæm əˌflɑʒ

Définition of camouflaged

Origin :
  • 1917, noun, verb, and adjective, from French camoufler, Parisian slang, "to disguise," from Italian camuffare "to disguise," of uncertain origin, perhaps a contraction of capo muffare "to muffle the head." Probably altered by influence of French camouflet "puff of smoke," on the notion of "blow smoke in someone's face." The British navy in World War I called it dazzle-painting.
  • Since the war started the POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY has published photographs of big British and French field pieces covered with shrubbery, railway trains "painted out" of the landscape, and all kinds of devices to hide the guns, trains, and the roads from the eyes of enemy aircraft.Until recently there was no one word in any language to explain this war trick. Sometimes a whole paragraph was required to explain this military practice. Hereafter one word, a French word, will save all this needless writing and reading. Camouflage is the new word, and it means "fooling the enemy." ["Popular Science Monthly," August 1917]
  • adj masked
Example sentences :
  • The Ranger who had been camouflaged as a clergyman stooped to examine the driver.
  • Extract from : « Oh, You Tex! » by William Macleod Raine
  • No doors or portals in sight; they might be camouflaged, or behind those hangings.
  • Extract from : « Legacy » by James H Schmitz
  • Marris brought down his tanks into St Julien and camouflaged them in the ruins.
  • Extract from : « A Company of Tanks » by W. H. L. Watson
  • They camouflaged what otherwise would have been disgraceful sloth.
  • Extract from : « In Pawn » by Ellis Parker Butler
  • The pit was camouflaged, looked like a mound of trash beside the trail.
  • Extract from : « The Buttoned Sky » by Geoff St. Reynard
  • They are all camouflaged, mottled and streaked in green and brown.
  • Extract from : « A "Y Girl in France » by Katherine Shortall
  • Also its fire might be camouflaged by a salvo from a protecting battery.
  • Extract from : « Air Service Boys Over The Rhine » by Charles Amory Beach
  • Ugliness and dirt are camouflaged by the clean top of everything.
  • Extract from : « Cavalry of the Clouds » by Alan Bott
  • Not far off was a huge 'camouflaged' aerodrome and a village of hangars.
  • Extract from : « Everyman's Land » by C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
  • The others, undoubtedly, were camouflaged just as his detachment was.
  • Extract from : « The Children of France » by Ruth Royce

Antonyms for camouflaged

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