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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Drab \Drab\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drabbed}; p. pr & vb n. {Drabbing}.] To associate with strumpets; to wench. --Beau. & Fl From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}. 2. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Drab \Drab\, a. Of a color between gray and brown. -- n. A drab color. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Drab \Drab\, 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. 2. A lewd wench; a strumpet. --Shak. 3. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans. From WordNet r 1.6 [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}]
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