ETYM French tabis (cf. Italian tabě, 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.

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

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