tabby

IPA: tˈæbi

(countable, uncountable) A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
(uncountable) 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.
(countable) A brindled cat.
(countable, archaic) An old maid or gossip.
A diminutive of the female given name Tabitha.

Examples of "tabby" in Sentences

Does 'tabby' weaving have some oblique connection to tabby cats?
Orabelle here is called a tabby Bengal Tiger and there are only about 50 in the world.
Weir, was derived from a kind of taffeta or ribbed silk which used to be called tabby silk.
Spanish, Italian, French and finally into English in the form of "tabby," as the designation of a rich-coloured watered silk.
Enclosed by a high wall of masonry (the "tabby" just described) was a tract of twelve acres devoted to the cultivation of flowers and tropical fruits.
Well-fed cats of all sizes and colors—tabby, calico, tortoiseshell—padded among the old graves or watched with lambent eyes from the benches positioned throughout the cemetery.
They were composed of the material known as "tabby," a mixture of shells, lime and broken stone or gravel with water; which mass, being pressed in a mould of boards, becomes when dry as hard and durable as rock.
April 29, 2008 at 12:30 pm omg dapanferkitteh, u haz recalled a long-losted memory- teh wide-eyed tabby on teh dresserwanting gushifud breakfast crash..down goes teh keys..tabby looks at bed…swoosh..papers flutteringdown..