protective coloration AmE
protective colouration BrE
cryptic coloration

It was protective coloration, but not exactly the whole truth.

"Give yourself some protective coloration," he told the dark man.

So the best thing is to adopt a protective coloration.

The food was protective coloration in any case and he had no intention of eating the thing.

And I realized suddenly that the words were all protective coloration for his hunger.

So maybe it was all natural protective coloration he'd acquired early."

They had become Han, reinventing themselves, taking on a protective coloration.

The gilded stars are gone now, and so is the protective coloration of fiction.

Silence, too, is another form of protective coloration not unknown by the oppressed.

Protective coloration enables an animal to blend in with its background.

The confusion was part of the Lady's protective coloration.

Would I get rid of this protective coloration and become visible again?"

Stress, fatigue and fear had combined to rob him of his protective coloration.

That might have been protective coloration, but who knows what happened on that return trip from China?

Creole was practiced at protective coloration, however; he caught on fast.

Protective coloration is the order of the day.

Protective coloration can also help make it easier for an animal that is hunting to approach its prey.

Black on black: the protective coloration of the night.

And painful to watch a son see his parents stripped of the protective coloration that is supposed to shield him.

I suck the cold suds down, participating in my own form of protective coloration.

He was leaning against the far end of the bar and nursing a tall glass, which gave him protective coloration.

Marigold was not without the feminine knack of protective coloration.

'He didn't have much in the way of protective coloration.

You thought maybe Joseph would be protective coloration.

"I think that it is called protective coloration."