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

The colour of this fabric.

Apparel, especially trousers, made from this fabric.

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

Of the color of some types of drabcloth: dull brownish yellow or dun.

(by extension) Particularly of color: dull, uninteresting.

(dated) A dirty or untidy woman; a slattern.

(dated) A promiscuous woman, a slut; a prostitute.

(obsolete) To consort with prostitutes; to whore.

A small amount, especially of money.

A box used in a saltworks for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.

(LGBT, slang) An instance of a transgender or non-binary person presenting as the gender corresponding to their sex assigned at birth instead of that corresponding to their internal gender identity.