olive drab

a deep olive color.

woolen cloth of this color, used especially for U.S. Army uniforms.

a military uniform made from this cloth.

Origin of olive drab

First recorded in 1895–1900

Never appear outside your room or tent with your coat or olive-drab shirt unbuttoned or collar of coat unhooked.

Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Cavalry of the Army |War Department.
The longshoreman placed the books atop the olive-drab hat, crushing it flat with their weight.

The Rich Little Poor Boy |Eleanor Gates
The helmets were painted in the olive-drab shade for protective coloring.

America's Munitions 1917-1918 |Benedict Crowell
Out in the sunlight in the middle of the clearing he saw a man in olive-drab kneeling beside something on the ground.

Three Soldiers |John Dos Passos

In front of him his eyes followed other patches of olive-drab moving among the tree trunks.

Three Soldiers |John Dos Passos

olive drab

cloth or clothes in this colour, esp the uniform of the US Army Abbreviation: OD