Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who keeps company with drabs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who associates with drabs; a wencher.
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- adjective
comparative form ofdrab : moredrab - noun A
hair product that works against naturalcolour to make the hair more drab. - noun obsolete One who associates with
drabs ; awencher .
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Examples
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It helps Hana maintain her identity by having a drabber mirror image for contrast.
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The keep was a quieter, drabber place without its mistress.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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It helps Hana maintain her identity by having a drabber mirror image for contrast.
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The keep was a quieter, drabber place without its mistress.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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“Small potatoes—but their world is definitely gonna get drabber.”
The God Hater Bill Myers 2010
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The keep was a quieter, drabber place without its mistress.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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There's just time for a firework and dance display called Peckhamdog Millionaire – like Slumdog but drabber and with fatter kids – before the finale, which involves dance troupes dressed as £50 notes, IOUs and promises written on municipal toilet paper climbing the sides of a giant, filthy lavatory bowl and swirling down.
London Olympics opening ceremony imagined – Ewan McGregor, Kate Winslet and a giant toilet bowl 2010
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It helps Hana maintain her identity by having a drabber mirror image for contrast.
Lord help the sister 2008
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Young hummingbirds look like females, whose drabber plumage helps hide the nest in the shadows.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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In cycling's case, radios and on-bike computers have tended to flatten the racing, making it drabber than was once the case.
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