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tabby1 a fabric with a watered pattern, esp silk or taffeta tabby2 1. (esp of cats) brindled with dark stripes or wavy markings on a lighter background 2. a tabby cat 3. any female domestic cat |
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You shall have a room on the sunny side, old Tabby, finished and furnished as best may suit your own notions. " For when he told his mother that Hetty was willing they should all live together and there was no more need of them to think of parting, she said, in a more contented tone than he had heard her speak in since it had been settled that he was to be married, "Eh, my lad, I'll be as still as th' ould tabby, an' ne'er want to do aught but th' offal work, as she wonna like t' do. The great beast, with arched back and purring like a contented tabby, rubbed his sides against the ape-man, and then at a word from the latter sprang lightly to his former place in the bow of the dugout. |
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