protective coloring
Example Sentences
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For youngsters, moreover, the protective coloring can have its uses.
From Time Magazine Archive
In most places Coke has blended into the local scene as if the brown-green of its bottles and the fire-brigade red of its advertising were some kind of protective coloring.
From Time Magazine Archive
That requirement has been dropped, and the recruiters look for a young man who has, besides the necessary venality, some protective coloring.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wherever the future looked most troubled and unpredictable, President Roxas painted it over with a protective coloring of red, white and blue.
From Time Magazine Archive
It wasn't poor enough to offer the universal desperation that gave the gang hoodlums protective coloring, nor rich enough to have major rackets of its own.
From Police Your Planet by Lester Del Rey
