[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

drab \drab\, a.
   of a color between gray and brown. -- n. a drab color.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

drab \drab\ dra^b, 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.
      1913 webster

   2. a lewd wench; a strumpet. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. a wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when
      taken out of the boiling pans.
      1913 webster
see also:
draff 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

drab \drab\, v. i. imp.  p. p. drabbed; p. pr.  vb. n.
   drabbing.
   to associate with strumpets; to wench. --beau.  fl.
   1913 webster
see also:
drabbed drabbing 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
      1913 webster

   2. a dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
      1913 webster
see also:
drape trappings drabcloth 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
see also:
dreary sober somber sombre dingy dismal 
drear gloomy sorry drabbing drabbed 
drabbest drabber 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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