meaning of drab
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.
4. To associate with strumpets; to wench.
5. A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.
6. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
7. Of a color between gray and brown.
8. A drab color.
9. 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
Related Words
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