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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



... and drab purple, the buildings of New York slide together into a pyramid above brown smudges of smoke standing out in the water, linked to the land by the ...
— One Man's Initiation--1917 • John Dos Passos
... added, that in a stormy nature like his, grief, like love, wears itself out quickly. It burns up passion and sentiment as it does ideas. When at length he regained his calm, everything appeared drab. Thagaste became intolerable. With his impulsive temperament, his changeable humour, he all at once hit upon a plan: To go back to Carthage and open a rhetoric school. Perhaps, too, the woman he loved and had abandoned there was ...
— Saint Augustin • Louis Bertrand
... sought; with regard to none of them was there conviction. They had all arrived either on Wednesday or Thursday. Two couples were still in occupation of their rooms, but neither of these were at home. Late in the afternoon I reduced my list by eliminating a young man in drab, with side whiskers and long cuffs, accompanied by a lady, of thirty or more, of consciously ladylike type. I was disgusted at the sight of them; the other two young people had gone for a long walk, and though I watched their boarding-house until the fiery cloud shone ...
— In the Days of the Comet • H. G. Wells
... nurse The poor that else were undone; Some landlords spend their money worse, On lust and pride in London. There the roysters they do play, Drab and dice their lands away, Which may be ours another day, And therefore ...
— English Songs and Ballads • Various
... with his usual correctness. His cravat was of the latest fashion, his clothes of careful design and unimpeachable fit. His shoes, of patent leather, reflected the lamplight, and he carried a drab overcoat over his arm. Before being introduced to the Committee, he excused himself a moment and ran to see his mother, who waited for him in the adjoining sitting-room. But in a few moments he returned, asking ...
— The Octopus • Frank Norris


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