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tabby

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1. tabby - Noun

2. tabby - Adjective

3. tabby - Verb

4. tabby - Adjective Satellite

5. Tabby - Proper noun

Meaning

A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.

A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.

A brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat.

An old maid or gossip.

Having a wavy or watered appearance; as, a tabby waistcoat.

Brindled; diversified in color; as, a tabby cat.

To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Twas on a lofty vase's side, Where China's gayest art had dyed The azure flowers, that blow; Demurest of the tabby kind, The pensive Selima reclined, Gazed on the lake below. Thomas Gray

My ginger tabby cat Oscar - he's got his own passport - he comes everywhere with me. Ashley Madekwe

I have pets, but they're the really ordinary sort - yellow Labrador, tabby cat, white rabbit, a few goldfish - that kind of stuff. Nothing very... extravagant or unusual or exotic, but I find, in terms of inspiration, Mother Nature is just it. Graeme Base

I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who solves mysteries. Ned Beauman

Relax. You're in good hands. Tabby wont hurt you. She stabbed me! Damn! I told her not to stab any more Hunters. I hate it when she does that. Sherrilyn Kenyon

A ticked (tabby) cheetah was photographed in Kenya in 2012. citation Juveniles are typically dark with long, loose, blue to grey hair. Source: Internet

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