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 drab /ˈdræb/
 黃褐色;邋遢女人,娼妓

 Drab n.
 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.

 Drab, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drabbed p. pr. & vb. n. Drabbing.] To associate with strumpets; to wench.

 Drab, n.
 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.

 Drab, a. Of a color between gray and brown. -- n. A drab color.
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 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]
      [also: drabbing, drabbed, drabbest, drabber]