Semantic drift: "khaki"

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Mon Sep 17 17:27:28 UTC 2007


To me, "khaki" has always been light ("dusty") tan. But I've seen the word
in clothing ads referring to a style or fabric of pants in any color! Maybe
I can find an example.

m a m

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