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camouflage noun & verb. E20.
[French, from camoufler verb (thieves' slang) from Italian camuffare disguise, deceive, perh. assoc. with French camouflet whiff of smoke in the face: see -AGE.]
A. noun. The disguising or concealment of guns, ships, aircraft, etc., by obscuring with splashes of various colours, foliage, netting, smokescreens, etc.; the disguise so used; gen. any means of disguise or evasion. E20.
J. K. Galbraith An extraordinarily elaborate exercise in social camouflage has kept us from seeing what has been happening. attrib.: N. Tinbergen Developed dark cross-bars (the stickleback's disruptive camouflage pattern).
b. verb trans. Conceal by camouflage. E20.
F. Tuohy A scarlet wool dress designed to celebrate rather than camouflage her pregnancy. Anthony Huxley Unripe fruits are green to camouflage them.