Drab \Drab\, a.
Of a color between gray and brown. -- n. A drab color.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Drab \Drab\ (dr[a^]b), n. [AS. drabbe dregs, lees; akin to D.
drab, drabbe, dregs, G. treber; for sense 1, cf. also Gael.
drabag a slattern, drabach slovenly. Cf. Draff.]
1. A low, sluttish woman. --King.
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2. A lewd wench; a strumpet. --Shak.
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3. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when
taken out of the boiling pans.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Drab \Drab\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drabbed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Drabbing.]
To associate with strumpets; to wench. --Beau. & Fl.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Drab \Drab\, n. [F. drap cloth: LL. drappus, trapus, perh.
orig., a firm, solid stuff, cf. F. draper to drape, also to
full cloth; prob. of German origin; cf. Icel. drepa to beat,
strike, AS. drepan, G. treffen; perh. akin to E. drub. Cf.
Drape, Trappings.]
1. A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish
yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.
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2. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
drab
adj 1: lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise; "her drab
personality"; "life was drab compared with the more
exciting life style overseas"; "a series of dreary
dinner parties" [syn: dreary]
2: lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains";
"sober Puritan gray"; "children in somber brown clothes"
[syn: sober, somber, sombre]
3: depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy
streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens;
"drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy
tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of
death"- B.A.Williams [syn: dingy, dismal, drear, dreary,
gloomy, sorry]
[also: drabbing, drabbed, drabbest, drabber]
WordNet (r) 2.0
94 Moby Thesaurus words for "drab":
bag, bat, bawd, beige, beldam, biddy, bleak, boring, brown,
brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, cheerless, chocolate, cinnamon,
cocoa, cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, colorless, crone,
cruiser, dead, deadened, desolate, dingy, dismal, dispiriting,
dowdy, dreary, dull, dun, dun-brown, dun-drab, ecru, faded, fawn,
fawn-colored, fille de joie, flat, fuscous, gray, grege, grey, hag,
harlot, hazel, hooker, humdrum, hustler, khaki, lackluster,
lifeless, lurid, lusterless, mat, monotonous, muddy, murky,
nightwalker, nut-brown, olive-brown, olive-drab, prosaic, prosy,
repetitive, same, samely, seal, seal-brown, sepia, slut,
snuff-colored, somber, sorrel, streetwalker, subfusc, tan, taupe,
tawny, tedious, toast, toast-brown, traipse, trot, umber,
umber-colored, unrelieved, walnut, walnut-brown, wan, whore, witch,
yellowish-brown
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
dingy, dismal, drabbed, drabber, drabbest, drabbing, drear, dreary, gloomy, sober, somber, sombre, sorry
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