Cutty Sark in British English
noun
a three-masted merchant clipper built in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869, now kept as a museum ship at Greenwich, London; badly damaged by a fire in 2007; restored then reopened in 2012
Word origin
named after the witch in Robert Burns' poem Tam O'Shanter, who wore only a cutty sark (short shirt)Examples of 'Cutty Sark' in a sentenceCutty Sark
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