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黄褐色;邋遢女人,娼妓

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Drab \Drab\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drabbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Drabbing}.]
   To associate with strumpets; to wench. --Beau. & Fl.

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.

Drab \Drab\, a.
   Of a color between gray and brown. -- n. A drab color.

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.

资料来源 : WordNet®

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}]