a fabric with a watered pattern, esp silk or taffeta
Word origin
C17: from Old French tabis silk cloth, from Arabic al-`attabiya, literally: the quarter of (Prince) `Attab, the part of Baghdad where the fabric wasfirst made
Examples of 'tabbies' in a sentence
tabbies
The couple already has three cats, including two other orange tabbies.
canada.com (2004)
Three lions, 23 fireside tabbies and a tray of cat litter.