英语词汇tabby cat的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

tabby cat. Prince Attab, famed in Arab legend, lived in a quarter of old Baghdad named Attabiya in his honor. Here a striped silk taffeta material was woven, the streaked fabric called attabi by the Arabs after the quarter, attabi eventually being transformed to tabis in French during the Middle Ages and translated in English as tabby cloth. Tabby became a verb for “to stripe” soon after, and by 1695 the word was used to de- scribe a brownish dark-striped or brindled tabby cat whose markings resembled the material. Old maids were also called tabbies, and this may have been because they often kept tabby cats and shared their careful habits, but the word for a spinster is more likely a pet form of Tabitha.

词汇	tabby cat
词源	tabby cat. Prince Attab, famed in Arab legend, lived in a quarter of old Baghdad named Attabiya in his honor. Here a striped silk taffeta material was woven, the streaked fabric called attabi by the Arabs after the quarter, attabi eventually being transformed to tabis in French during the Middle Ages and translated in English as tabby cloth. Tabby became a verb for “to stripe” soon after, and by 1695 the word was used to de- scribe a brownish dark-striped or brindled tabby cat whose markings resembled the material. Old maids were also called tabbies, and this may have been because they often kept tabby cats and shared their careful habits, but the word for a spinster is more likely a pet form of Tabitha.
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