"dinginess" meaning in English

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          "text": "His nether garments were of a blueish gray—violent in its colours once, but sobered now by age and dinginess—and were so stretched and strained in a tough conflict between his braces and his straps, that they appeared every moment in danger of flying asunder at the knees.",
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          "text": "He was a pitiful image of shabby gentility and the dinginess of “reduced circumstances.”",
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