noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tabby cat (= which has dark and light lines on brown or grey fur )
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They had a 12-year-old tabby cat.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was a long-haired tabby she had found in the kitchen garden, old and nearly dead from starvation.
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Not even a sinister black cat, but a large and lazy-looking tabby .
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On the front cover, a dilute tabby looks nobly if nervously to its right.
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The first cats of this type were what we today call striped or mackerel tabby , covered with thin, dark lines.
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The two-year-old tabby was horrifically injured in a road accident.
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This tabby was no cheap date.
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This, it seems, is how the history of the tabby began.
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Within an old tabby wall are the grounds of the Stafford house, burned down over a hundred years ago.