drab

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

IPA（発音記号）

/dɹæb/

名詞

未分類 限定用法 可算名詞 不可算名詞 広義

A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour. / The colour of this fabric.

日本語の意味

厚手の綿または羊毛で作られる、くすんだ黄褐色、鈍い灰色、または薄茶色を呈する布地、またはその布地の持つ色調。

英語の意味

A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour. / The colour of this fabric.

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She covered the rustic armchair with a coarse drab to hide the torn upholstery.

彼女は破れた張り地を隠すために、素朴な肘掛け椅子にくすんだ黄褐色の厚手の布をかけた。

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意味（1）

A fabric, usually of thick cotton or wool, having a dull brownish yellow, dull grey, or dun colour.

John Hanſell, of Bridport, in Dorſetſhire, ſail-cloth manufacturer, ſtates in his evidence, that the ſale of coarſe woollen cloath was not then a twentieth part of what it had been for the common people formerly, owing to their ſubſtituting Ruſſia drabs and ravenſduck as garments in place of the coarſe woollens.

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意味（2）

The colour of this fabric.

drab:

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意味（3）

Often in the plural form drabs: apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.

He wore a pretty large wig, which had once been white, but was now of a browniſh yellow; his coat was one of thoſe modeſt-coloured drabs which mock the injuries of duſt and dirt; …

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意味（4）

(by extension) A dull or uninteresting appearance or situation, unremarkable.

The slimy little causeway had dropped into the river by a slow process of suicide, and two or three stumps of piles and a rusty iron mooring-ring were all that remained of the departed Break-Neck glories. … [T]hrough three-fourths of its rising tides the dirty indecorous drab of a river would come solitarily oozing and lapping at the rusty ring, …

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drabs （ plural ）