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Cadet grey
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<p>Cadet grey is a somewhat <a href="/facts/Blue-gray/0HlrWARh">blue-greyish</a> shade of the colour <a href="/facts/Grey/wGvycLY0">grey</a>. The first recorded use of <i>cadet grey</i> as a colour name in <a href="/facts/English_language/tpkxGt7b">English</a> was in 1912.[<i>inconsistent</i>] Before 1912, the word <i>cadet grey</i> was used as a name for a type of military issue uniform. </p>