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Drab   /dræb/   Listen
adjective
Drab  adj.  (compar. drabber; superl. drabbest)  Of a color between gray and brown.


noun
Drab  n.  
1.
A low, sluttish woman.
2.
A lewd wench; a strumpet.
3.
A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.


Drab  n.  
1.
A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; called also drabcloth.
2.
A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.


Drab  n.  A drab color.


verb
Drab  v. i.  (past & past part. drabbed; pres. part. drabbing)  To associate with strumpets; to wench.





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"Drab" Quotes from Famous Books



... Edwin Arlington Robinson, or the eerie otherworldliness of Yeats, or the harsh virility of Sandburg is to be regarded as an intensification and clarification of experience, he begs to be excused. He would say that if the lyrics of subtle and passionate emotion and the drab stories of sex experience that make up so many pages of modern anthologies represent a renewal and extension of youth, it was not his youth. He prefers to be sanely old rather than erotically young. He will stick to the daily paper ...
— Definitions • Henry Seidel Canby
... leaving Powers and Mazechazz staring at each other in the council chamber, their gaudy uniforms looking a little dull and drab. ...
— Join Our Gang? • Sterling E. Lanier
... phrase about Greeley's old white coat had some foundation in fact, but not much. He did wear a light drab overcoat when I first saw him, with the full pockets spreading out on each side. As it suited him he wore it many years afterward, and when it was quite worn out he had another one made just like it which he ...
— My Friends at Brook Farm • John Van Der Zee Sears
... rode away, not giving Tom time to ask what the sweep had gone to prison for, which was a matter of interest to Tom, as he had been in prison once or twice himself. Moreover, the groom looked so very neat and clean, with his drab gaiters, drab breeches, drab jacket, snow-white tie with a smart pin in it, and clean round ruddy face, that Tom was offended and disgusted at his appearance, and considered him a stuck-up fellow, who gave himself airs because he wore smart clothes, ...
— Journeys Through Bookland V2 • Charles H. Sylvester
... hopping away beneath the bushes and undergrowth, appearing again farther on, and then spreading its wings for a short flight, and displaying the lovely colours with which it was dyed, the most prominent being shades of blue relieved by delicate fawn and pale warm drab. ...
— Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy • George Manville Fenn


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