khaki 卡其色为什么叫卡其色呢?它的英文的渊源是什么?

Khaki is a type of fabric or the colour of such fabric. Traditionally pronounced IPA: ['kʰaki], it is today more often called ['kʰɑkʰi] in Britain, ['kʰækʰi] in the USA. The name comes from the Persian word khak (dust/ashes) which came to English from modern day Pakistan, specifically via the British Indian Army. Khaki means earth-coloured or dust coloured, referring to the colour of uniforms introduced by the army regiments in the 1880s. More accurately, the correct shade of "Khaki" is the colour of "Multani Mitti", meaning "the mud of Multan". Multan was a well known military cantonment of British India (now in Pakistan).

In 1846 Sir Harry Lumsden raised a corps of Guides for frontier service from Indian recruits at Peshawar. These were clothed in loose fitting clothing dyed a drab colour. During the Indian Mutiny of 1857 a number of British regiments followed this example by dying their white summ