drab-coloured

And then, as the last light was fading from the drab-coloured sky, the wind blowing cheerless and cold, we stood, with our pitiful little bundles in our hands, a forlorn group at the workhouse door.

THE CARTER AND THE CARPENTER 2010

The cliched visions of Gypsies and sweltering vistas are avoided in Ashley Dean's production, which updates the action to Franco-era Spain, all drab-coloured costumes and corrugated iron backdrops.

Carmen 2010

When we halted that evening in 82º 20 'S., we saw on the south-western horizon several heavy masses of drab-coloured cloud, such as are usually to be seen over land.

The South Pole~ The Start for the Pole 2009

He lives in Belgravia, of course; in a drab-coloured genteel house, and has everything about him that is properly grave, dismal, and comfortable.

The Book of Snobs 2006

The great thundering carriages that roared up and down the drab-coloured streets of the new quarter, contained no friends for the sociable little Laura.

The Book of Snobs 2006

The factory stood there, raw and large and sombre, by the stream, and the drab-coloured stone tenements were close by.

Twilight in Italy 2003

The north-eastern flank shows the normal revetment of ruddy and black heat-altered grit, which gives a red back to the pale-sided, drab-coloured heap.

The Land of Midian 2003

Elsa, in a drab-coloured dust-coat, a grey hat with a brown gossamer veil flying from it, and yellow boots; with a little travelling-bag slung across her shoulders, and carrying a band-box and a brown-holland hold-all, on which, in red cotton, with many a flourish, was embroidered: “A pleasant journey!”

Two Tales of Old Strasbourg 2003

The taller of the two, Mr. Henry Irving, wears a light drab-coloured coat and dark hat; Mr. William Terriss is attired in a light hat and dark coat.

The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

To her Cynthia was a child still, and she was grateful that she should have this bit of brightness and joy in her narrow, drab-coloured life.

A Son of the Hills