In the 18th century, the Swedish government made coffee and its paraphernalia (including cups and dishes) illegal for its supposed ties to rebellious sentiment.
DRABBEST
DRAB
blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
(adjective) causing dejection; “a blue day”; “the dark days of the war”; “a week of rainy depressing weather”; “a disconsolate winter landscape”; “the first dismal dispiriting days of November”; “a dark gloomy day”; “grim rainy weather”
drab, olive-drab
(adjective) of a light brownish green color
drab, sober, somber, sombre
(adjective) lacking brightness or color; dull; “drab faded curtains”; “sober Puritan grey”; “children in somber brown clothes”
drab, dreary
(adjective) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
drabbest
superlative form of drab: most drab
Anagrams
• drabbets
Source: Wiktionary
DRAB
Drab, n. Etym: [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.
2. A lewd wench; a strumpet. Shak.
3. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
Drab, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Drabbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Drabbing.]
Definition: To associate with strumpets; to wench. Beau. & Fl.
Drab, n. Etym: [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.
2. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.
Drab, a.
Definition: Of a color between gray and brown.
– n.
Definition: A drab color.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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