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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drab \Drab\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Drabbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Drabbing}.] To associate with strumpets; to wench. --Beau. & Fl.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drab \Drab\, adjective Of a color between gray and brown. -- n. A drab color.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drab \Drab\, noun [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Drab \Drab\ (dr[a^]b), noun [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) 2.0 [wn]:
drab
adjective
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}] [also: {drabbing}, {drabbed}, {drabbest}, {drabber}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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