1. Of, relating to, or made of tabby
2. Striped and mottled with darker color; brindled

ETYM French tabis (cf. Italian tabì, Spanish and Portu. tabí, Late Lat. attabi), from Arabic attâbî, properly the name of a quarter of Bagdad where it was made, the quarter being named from the prince Attab, great grandson of Omeyya. Related to Tobine.
1. A cat with a gray or tawny coat mottled with black; SYN. tabby cat.
2. Female cat; SYN. queen.
Plain-woven silk taffeta fabric.

A cement made of lime, sand or gravel, and oyster shells and used chiefly along the coast of Georgia and South Carolina in the 17th and 18th centuries

Breed of domestic cat of short- or longhaired fur. The distinctive patterning of the coat is inherited from the cat’s pre-domesticated ancestors. It is believed that all color variations of shorthaired cats have been bred from the tabby. The coat’s ground color is either gray or golden brown overlaid with stripes (“mackerel”), blotches (“classic”, or (less frequently) spots. There are many varieties.
The name is derived from the striped watered silk, known in Britain as tabbi silk, produced by the weavers of the Attabiya district of Baghdad.