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What is the noun for drabs?

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drab
  1. A fabric, usually of thick wool or cotton, having a drab colour.
  2. The colour of this fabric; a dun, dull grey, or or dull brownish yellow.
  3. A wooden box, used in saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Ineffable sarcasm underlined the word 'bride', suggesting that Mrs. Mudge must be a drab who had married for respectability.”
drab
drabber
  1. A hair product that works against natural colour to make the hair more drab.
  2. (obsolete) One who associates with drabs; a wencher.
drabness
  1. The characteristic of being drab.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The extravagant plumage of peacocks contrasts with the drabness of peahens.”
      “We need them to safeguard us against drabness and drudgery, against a mechanistic and wearisome utilitarianism.”
      “Moths are generally distinguished from butterflies by their drabness, yet the luna moth is almost flamboyant.”
drabcloth
  1. drab (kind of fabric)
drabnesses
drabbers
  1. plural of drabber
drabs
  1. plural of drab
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    1. “But in dribs and drabs most of those picked up have been granted refugee status and allowed to stay.”
      “They wore beige camouflage drabs, a black helmet, which also doubled as a gas mask, and wore revlar vests.”
      “They wore winter drabs, and I couldn't decide whether they were Australasian or Hoary-headed grebes.”
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