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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



... Coat for Scout Masters: Made of standard olive drab cotton cloth, two pleats, back and front, ...
— Boy Scouts Handbook - The First Edition, 1911 • Boy Scouts of America
... more words; but presently, hearing the sound of a door opening and shutting below, the girl again looked from the window. Footsteps crunched on the gravel-walk, and a shape in a drab greatcoat, easily distinguishable as her father, withdrew from the house. He moved to the left, and she watched him diminish down the long east front till he had turned the corner and vanished. He must have gone ...
— A Group of Noble Dames • Thomas Hardy
... stars were like diamonds. Not in the light of swirling, angry, red suns, not upon the surface of any planet, so drab when you drew too near. Only in the sterile purity of remote space where he could maintain and nourish the essential purity of his day-dreams. But of course one could not explain this to the Board of Examiners; least of ...
— The Marooner • Charles A. Stearns
... reached the lowlands in safety. On the left-hand side now was the rock-strewn beach, and the almost deafening roar of the Atlantic. On the right and in front, fields, no longer like patchwork but showing some signs of cultivation; here and there, indeed, the stooping forms of labourers—men, drab-coloured, unnoticeable; women in bright green and scarlet shawls and short petticoats. He passed a little row of whitewashed cottages, from whose doorways and windows the children and old people stared at him with strange eyes. One old man who met his gaze ...
— The Box with Broken Seals • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... Yes, the drab of dawn was past, and, as it was with all Nature about them, the rosy light of hope brushed lightly the weary hearts of those who had just passed through the fiery trials of ...
— The One-Way Trail - A story of the cattle country • Ridgwell Cullum


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