A dull dusty brown colour, or a yellow-brown. Khaki is often used in camouflage as it is close to the colour of dead leaves and dry earth. Safari suits are traditonally khaki. Some military uniforms and fatigues are khaki. Despite this, it is a pleasing and occasionally fashionable colour.

Khaki can also refer to cloth or clothes in this colour. See also khakis.

Oolong notes that khaki was originallly an Urdu word meaning dust-coloured. It came from Persian, from kak (with a long a) meaning dust.

Pronounced cacky in American English, and Kaa-key elsewhere, with variations on how Kaa-key is locally pronounced.