tabby

tabby
(pl. -ies)
  1. (亦作 tabby cat)a grey or brownish cat mottled or streaked with dark stripes
    斑猫
  2. [mass noun]a fabric with a watered pattern, typically silk
    波纹织物（尤指波纹绸）
  3. [mass noun]a plain weave
    平纹
  4. [mass noun]a type of concrete made of lime, shells, gravel, and stones, which dries very hard
    沙土碎石混合料
  5. a small moth with dark wavy markings on the forewings
    斑蛾
  6. Genus Aglossa (family Pyralidae), often found in barns and warehouses, and genus Epizeuxis (family Noctuidae)
    缟螟属（螟蛾科)，经常在谷仓和仓库中发现，还有云杉夜蛾属（夜娥科）
adjective
  1. (of a cat) grey or brownish in colour and streaked with dark stripes
    （猫）灰（或棕）色带黑条纹的
语源
  1. late 16th cent. (denoting a kind of silk taffeta, originally striped, later with a watered finish: see sense 2): from French tabis, based on Arabic al-‘Attābiyya, the name of the quarter of Baghdad where tabby was manufactured
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