Hypertext Webster Gateway: "drab"
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) 1.7 (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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