Drab

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Drab \Drab\, a.
     Of a color between gray and brown. -- n. A drab color.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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