drab
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1. drab - Noun
2. drab - Adjective
3. drab - Verb
4. drab - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
A low, sluttish woman.
A lewd wench; a strumpet.
A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
To associate with strumpets; to wench.
A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.
A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
Of a color between gray and brown.
A drab color.
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When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.
Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing Torture is positively paid to sing.
It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.
The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
Sir, my life, drab and insipid though it may seem to others, is the only life given me to live.
Christ can be trusted to keep His Word that He will exchange our drab existence for joyous living, abundant life! And while true love, total acceptance, and complete security are rare in our frantic world, the biblical evidence that our desires in these areas will be fulfilled in Christ is abundant.