DHPa cat with light and dark lines on its fur (虎)斑猫〔毛皮上有深浅条纹的一种猫〕
—tabbyadjectiveadj
Examples from the Corpus
tabby• On the front cover, a dilutetabby looks nobly if nervously to its right.• He was a long-haired tabby she had found in the kitchengarden, old and nearly dead from starvation.• Not even a sinisterblack cat, but a large and lazy-looking tabby.• The first cats of this type were what we today call striped or mackereltabby, covered with thin, dark lines.• Within an old tabbywall are the grounds of the Stafford house, burned down over a hundred years ago.• The two-year-old tabby was horrifically injured in a roadaccident.• This, it seems, is how the history of the tabby began.• This tabby was no cheapdate.
Origintabby
(1600-1700)tabby type of striped cloth ((16-19 centuries)), from Frenchtabis, from Medieval Latinattabi, from Arabic, from Al-'Attabiya part of Baghdad where the cloth was originally made