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RAF Supermarine Spitfire in sand-and-spinach camouflage, 1941

sand and spinach (uncountable)

  1. (military, colloquial) A form of camouflage in dull green and olive colours.

    • 2012, Stuart Slade, A Mighty Endeavor, page 81:

      He left to supervise the repainting of the Flying Fortress. It was already beginning to sport the British "sand and spinach" color scheme […]