drab : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: drab	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for drab
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
drab adj 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(s): drab, dreary lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes" Synonym(s): drab, sober, somber, sombre of a light brownish green color Synonym(s): olive-drab, drab 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(s): blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary n a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown [syn: olive drab, drab]
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 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.