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tabby
Part of speech: NounA taffeta silk with a wavy marking: often called watered silk; a gray and black striped cat; hence, any domestic cat.
Part of speech: AdjectiveHaving a wavy marking; brindled.
Usage examples "tabby":- To many an ancient Tabby Since then we have done the same. - "Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine", Heinrich Heine.
- It might be a wandering tabby that had blundered into a piece of furniture; perhaps the window had creaked; it might be any one of half a hundred things. - "The Lost Valley", J. M. Walsh.
- As soon as the lady had gone upstairs Mrs. Tabby Gray came back, with the little white kitten; and when she found the trunk closed, she was terribly frightened. - "Mother Stories", Maud Lindsay.