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cadet gray

cadet gray is the alternative form of cadet grey.

Meaning of cadet grey

Noun

cadet grey

  1. A bluish shade of grey, similar to cadet blue.
    • Moreover, according to uniform historian Fred Adolphus, Confederate cadet grey may never have been as blue or as irregular as the shade reenactors have tried to recapture, based on a comparison of reproduction cloth with museum-conserved uniforms.2016 April 13, Romie Stott, “The Historical Reenactor Accuracy Wars”, in Atlas Obscura

Questions about cadet gray

What is cadet gray the alternative form of?
Cadet gray is the alternative form of cadet grey.

Words near cadet gray in the dictionary

  1. cadet blue
  2. cadet blues
  3. Cadet Bonespurs
  4. cadet branch
  5. cadet branches
  6. cadet gray
  7. cadet grey
  8. cadet house
  9. cadet houses
  10. cadetcies
  11. cadetcy

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