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Definition of Drabbest
1. drab [adj] - See also: drab
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drabbest
Literary usage of Drabbest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1921)
"... and while no one will be so naive or rash as to maintain that a translation,
even of the drabbest kind of prose, takes quite the place of the original, ..."
2. Representative British Dramas: Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"Now, Political claims were but the narrowest, drabbest aspect of the matter as
I saw it. The Woman's Movement is Woman, expressing herself. ..."
3. Putnam's Monthly (1907)
"He raked into the drabbest deeps of his memory, explored a history which had been
more happily forgotten, and expanded an ingenuity which had been better ..."
4. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Léon Vallée, Richard Garnett, Alois Brandl (1899)
"Rising from a little cabin boy in short clothes of the drabbest drab, to a
harpooner in a broad shad-bellied waistcoat ; from that becoming boat header, ..."
5. Putnam's Magazine (1907)
"He raked into the drabbest deeps of his memory, explored a history which had been
more happily forgotten, and expanded an ingenuity which had been better ..."
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