Definition of Feldgrau

1. the grey colour of German military uniforms [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Feldgrau

feitknechtite
feitorias
feitsui
feklichevite
felafel
felafels
felbama te
felbamate
felbertalite
felchards
felched
felches
felching
feldgrau (current term)
feldgraus
feldscher
feldschers
feldsher
feldshers
feldspar
feldsparlike
feldspars
feldspath
feldspathic
feldspathoid
feldspathoids
feldspathose
feldspaths

Literary usage of Feldgrau

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Land of Haunted Castles by Robert Joseph Casey (1921)
""Then the roads were dim with feldgrau once more— dirty, stained feldgrau that told the story of the useless struggle and the terrible retreat. ..."

2. American Jewish Year Book by American Jewish Committee, Jewish Publication Society of America (1920)
"During the entire course of the war, every time an Alsatian or a Lor- rainer, kept back by force in a feldgrau uniform, had the chance of getting away to ..."

3. Creative Chemistry by Edwin Emery Slosson (1919)
"The Confederates in their butternut-colored uniform were almost as invisible as if in khaki or feldgrau. Madder was cultivated in the kitchen garden. ..."

4. Vagabonding Through Changing Germany by Harry Alverson Franck (1920)
"... office strikingly resembled one of our own—little except the feldgrau instead of khaki was different. A half-dozen soldiers and three or four non-coms. ..."

5. What is Back of the War by Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (1915)
"... except for occasional companies of troops in feldgrau, and now and then a bandaged soldier on the streets. Indeed, to one expecting marching thousands, ..."

6. An Uncensored Diary from the Central Empires by Ernesta Drinker Bullitt (1917)
"every window in the town, and asked them if they would not, as loyal Germans, have done quite the same if another nation had held a dress-parade in feldgrau ..."

7. French Literature of the Great War by Albert Schinz (1920)
"Don the wolf-skin! it was thus arrayed, O feldgrau warrior, that thine ancestor of the forests and the marshes went out to meet the foreign invader. ..."

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