drab
/dɹæb/ noun C1- A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.
- The color of this fabric.
- Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.
- A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.
Plural drabs
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Mac, would be a drab and sordid one if we did not sometimes set the scene so as to glorify our results.
But when, for the fourth time, after pushing back our chairs from breakfast we saw the greasy, heavy brown swirl still drifting past us and condensing in oily drops upon the window-panes, my comrade’s impatient and active nature could endure this drab existence no longer.
He wore rather baggy grey shepherd’s check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as an ornament.
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