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drab

/dræb/ やや難 頻度 14546位

意味

  1. 単調な,退屈な,おもしろくない
  2. くすんだ茶色の
  3. くすんだ茶色,灰色がかったかっ色,土(つち)色

語源

英語の原文(Wiktionary)

Probably from Middle French and Old French drap (“cloth”), either: * from Late Latin drappus (“drabcloth, kerchief; piece of cloth”), most likely from Gaulish *drappo, from Proto-Indo-European *drep- (“to scratch, tear”); or * from Frankish *drapi, *drāpi (“that which is fulled, drabcloth”), from Proto-Germanic *drap-, *drēp- (“something beaten”), from *drepaną (“to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (“to beat, crush; to make or become thick”).

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