Melange
Melange (French mêler, to mottle, mix, speckle, blend), mixture; melange, especially of colours: speckled, mottled. The blue denim pictured above is a melange of indigo dyed warp thread, some of which has faded to a very light blue, and white weft thread just visible in the recesses.
- Green Melange, colour of the Fallschirmjägerbluse M40
Source: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, 6. Auflage 1905–1909