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tabby
A tabby cat is named after a striped watered silk, ʿattābī, woven in al-ʿAttābiyya, a quarter of Baghdad named for the Umayyad prince ʿAttāb; Mediterranean traders carried the cloth and its name into Latin, Italian, Spanish and French, French tabis gave English tabby, and by the 1690s a cat with a striped coat was a tabby cat.
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