The Crossword Solver found 20 answers to “Shade of some turning leaves”, 5 letters crossword clue. The Crossword Solver finds answers to American-style crosswords, British-style crosswords, general knowledge crosswords and cryptic crossword puzzles.
Answer : DRAB
drab – a
lacking brightness or color; dull
SYNONYMS
arid, boring, colorless, dreary, drudging, dry, dull, dusty, flat, heavy, ho-hum, humdrum, jading, jejune, leaden, mind-numbing, monochromatic, monotonous, numbing, old, pedestrian, ponderous, slow, stale, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, tiresome, tiring, uninteresting, wearisome, weary, wearying
SENTENCE EXAMPLES
“He lives a drab life.”
“the new city hall promises to be another drab pile of masonry for the town”
ETYMOLOGY
drab (adj.)
1715, “yellowish-gray; of the color of natural, undyed cloth,” from the trade name for the color itself (1680s), which is from an earlier noun drab, drap meaning “thick, woolen cloth of a yellowish-gray color” (1540s), from French drap “cloth, piece of cloth”. The figurative sense of “dull, not bright or colorful” is by 1880.
Apparently this word is not related to earlier noun drab “a dirty, untidy woman” (1510s), “a prostitute” (1520s), which might be from Irish drabog, Gaelic drabag “dirty woman,” or perhaps it is connected with Dutch and Low German drabbe “dirt;” compare drabble. The notion seems to be of dabbling in the wet and mud.
The meaning “small, petty debt” (the sense in dribs and drabs) is by 1828, of uncertain connection to the other senses.
More Clues
- OCHER Shade of some turning leaves
- PEA GREEN Shade of some soup
- DRAB Olive _ (dull green shade of some military uniforms) SEPIA Tint of some prints of “Nosferatu” OURS “A tone of some world far from _“: Shelley
- THE MOUSETRAP Those people on river, some turning up for play
- VERONA Some turning up in Slovenian or even Italian city
- POLISH Refinement of some Europeans?
- REYNARD Fox on road around some turning
- REDS Shades of some Smarties
- ELEGANCE The refinement of some earlier personnel, e.g. ancestors
- FOLIA Get sick of turning leaves
- STRAP Holding device for turning leaves
- GOLLY My turn leaves somebody behind
- EVERT Nevertheless, some turn outwards
- TOMES After it finishes, some turn to learned novels
- DEPARTS Good man assaulted turning leaves.
- SCRAPED Turning leaves tenor made cold rubbed
- CAP Showing some turn of pace, it”s topping
- RIGHTS Some turn signals
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