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Oxford English Dictionary:
Camouflage
The disguising of any objects used in war, such as camps, guns, ships, by means of paint, smoke-screens, shrubbery, etc., in such a way as to conceal it from the enemy; also, the disguise used in this way; freq. attrib.
1917 Daily Mail 25 May 4/4 The act of hiding anything from your enemy is termed ‘camouflage’.
Dazzle
The painting of large patches of colour on warships, etc., as camouflage in time of war. Also Comb. in dazzle-paint, -painted, -painting, -pattern. Also transf.
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Oxford Art Online / Ref. N 31 .D5 1996 The Dictionary of Art. 34 vols.
Camoupedia by Call Number: RISD REFERENCE N72.C36 B42 2009
Grzimek's animal life encyclopedia.Call Number: RISD REFERENCE QL7 .G7813
Korean motifs / edited by Ahn Sang-soo ; pattern collection, Kwoun [i.e. Kwon] Dong-gyu ... [et al.] ; English writing, Gary Rector.Call Number: RISD REFERENCE OVERSIZE NK1484.6.A1 K67 1986 (10 vols.)
Disruptive Pattern Material by Call Number: RISD REFERENCE OVERSIZE UG449 .B54 2004
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Oxford Art Online:
Camouflage
[Fr. camoufler: ‘to hide or disguise’; It. camuffare: ‘to disguise or deceive’].
Bibliography:
G. H. Thayer: Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom: An Exposition of the Laws of Disguise through Color and Pattern, Being a Summary of Abbott H. Thayer’s Discoveries, intro. A. H. Thayer (New York, 1909, 2/1918)
H. B. Cott: Adaptive Coloration in Nature (London, 1940)
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