camotint

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noun

Any of several pale camouflage colours used by the British Royal Air Force during World War II, especially Camotint green.

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camotint1

nouncamotint (uncountable)
  1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of Camotint.

Camotint2

nounCamotint (uncountable)

alternative camotint

  1. historicaluncountableAny of several pale camouflage colours used by the British Royal Air Force during World War II, especially Camotint green.

    Then an F.24 camera was installed in each wing, and the whole airframe painted in a pale duck-egg green 'Camotint' finish for 'invisibility.'

    1980, Chaz Bowyer, Supermarine Spitfire, page 43
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    But by the time it left Habbaniya it had been transformed into a civilian aircraft GAGAR and once again painted in the Camotint blue-green camouflage.

    2011, Jeffrey Watson, Sidney Cotton: The Last Plane Out of Berlin

    Then Niven took off on September 1 in a single-engined Beech 17 which had been painted in Camotint, and photographed Wilhelmshaven once more.

    2014, Dave Humphrey, Legends & Heroes - behind the lens, page 60

Origin

Blend of camouflage + tint, coined by inventor Sidney Cotton.

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