tabby

noun (plural tabbies)

• 1 (also tabby cat) a cat whose fur is mottled or streaked with dark stripes.

  [ late 17th century (as tabby cat): said to be so named from its striped coloring]
• informal any domestic cat.

• 2a fabric with a watered pattern, typically silk.

• 3a plain weave.

• 4a type of concrete made of lime, shells, gravel, and stones that dries very hard.

  [ early 19th century (originally tabby work): perhaps a different word, or from a resemblance in color to that of a tabby cat]

adjective

• (of a cat) gray or brownish in color and streaked with dark stripes.