Camotint

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Etymology

Blend of camouflage +‎ tint, coined by inventor Sidney Cotton.

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Camotint (uncountable)

  1. (historical) Any of several pale camouflage colours used by the British Royal Air Force during World War II, especially Camotint green.
    • 1980, Chaz Bowyer, Supermarine Spitfire, page 43:
      Then an F.24 camera was installed in each wing, and the whole airframe painted in a pale duck-egg green 'Camotint' finish for 'invisibility.'
    • 2011, Jeffrey Watson, Sidney Cotton: The Last Plane Out of Berlin:
      But by the time it left Habbaniya it had been transformed into a civilian aircraft GAGAR and once again painted in the Camotint blue-green camouflage.
    • 2014, Dave Humphrey, Legends & Heroes - behind the lens, page 60:
      Then Niven took off on September 1 in a single-engined Beech 17 which had been painted in Camotint, and photographed Wilhelmshaven once more.

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