英语词汇camouflage的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	camouflage
词源	camouflage. In Parisian slang, prior to World War I, camou- fler meant “to disguise.” After 1914 the term was “naturalized with remarkable rapidity” by the English as camouflage and ap- plied to anything disguised from the enemy, whether a vari- colored battleship or a convoy of trucks.
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