cadet grey

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cadet grey

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From the colour of military uniform; first used as a colour term around 1912.

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A bluish shade of grey, similar to cadet blue. Moreover, according to uniform historian Fred Adolphus, Confederate cadet grey may never have been as blue or as irregular as the shade reenactors have tried to recapture, based on a comparison of reproduction cloth with museum-conserved uniforms.

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@misc{cadet_grey_2026,
  title = {cadet grey},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cadet%20grey},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}