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drab    音标拼音: [dr'æb]
n. 黄褐色;邋遢女人,娼妓

黄褐色;邋遢女人,娼妓

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" [synonym: {drab}, {dreary}]
2: lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains";
"sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes"
[synonym: {drab}, {sober}, {somber}, {sombre}]
3: of a light brownish green color [synonym: {olive-drab}, {drab}]
4: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war";
"a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter
landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November";
"a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [synonym: {blue},
{dark}, {dingy}, {disconsolate}, {dismal}, {gloomy}, {grim},
{sorry}, {drab}, {drear}, {dreary}]
n 1: a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown [synonym:
{olive drab}, {drab}]

Drab \Drab\, a.
Of a color between gray and brown. -- n. A drab color.
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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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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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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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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


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  • DRAB Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    The meaning of DRAB is characterized by dullness and monotony : cheerless How to use drab in a sentence
  • DRAB | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
    DRAB definition: 1 boring, especially in appearance; having little colour and excitement: 2 boring, especially in… Learn more
  • Drab (color) - Wikipedia
    Several shades of drab have been used for military uniforms, including the above-mentioned light- brown color The greenish shades of drab, known as olive drab, were used as the colors of the U S Army uniforms and equipment during World War II
  • What is Drab? (60 Colors) - colorguide. org
    Drab is an extremely earthy reddish brown that has the appearance of clay or soil This term derives from the Old French drap meaning cloth that was adopted into English as drab to describe undyed woolen fabric from Yorkshire in the 17th century
  • Drab - definition of drab by The Free Dictionary
    To consort with prostitutes: "Even amid his drabbing, he himself retained some virginal airs" (Stanislaus Joyce) [Possibly of Celtic origin (akin to Scottish Gaelic dràbag Irish Gaelic drabóg, slattern) or from Dutch drab, dregs ]
  • DRAB Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
    DRAB definition: dull; cheerless; lacking in spirit, brightness, etc See examples of drab used in a sentence
  • drab - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
    Just for those who may not be aware of the term, “drab” is how you might describe a transgendered person (including transsexuals, crossdressers, drag queens, etc ) that is presenting as their birth sex
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    Drab to Fab is your expert B Corp landscaping company serving San Diego County We offer a wide range of landscape design, build, and maintenance services, and we donate 1% of our revenue to environmental projects worldwide
  • Drab - Etymology, Origin Meaning - Etymonline
    drab (adj ) 1715, "yellowish-gray; of the color of natural, undyed cloth," from the trade name for the color itself (1680s), which is from an earlier noun drab, drap meaning "thick, woolen cloth of a yellowish-gray color" (1540s), from French drap "cloth, piece of cloth" (see drape (v ))
  • Drab - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
    Dull, dreary, dingy, depressing: These adjectives capture the sense of drab, whether the word is used to describe a muted color, a miserable mood, or an oppressively boring existence





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