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from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete spelling of tabby.

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Examples

  • They were a gay company at supper in consequence, and gayest of all was Messer Gonzaga, most bravely dressed in a purple suit of taby silk to honour so portentous an occasion.

    Love-at-Arms Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • One of these -- that same Gonzaga who had escorted her from the Convent of Santa Sofia -- most splendidly arrayed in white taby, his vest and doublet rich with gold, sat upon a low stool, idly fingering the lute in his lap, from which Gian Maria inferred that his had been the voice that had reached him in the ante-chamber.

    Love-at-Arms Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Did not stir out all day, but rose and dined below, and this day left off half skirts and put on a wastecoate, and my false taby wastecoate with gold lace; and in the evening there came Sir W. Batten to see me, and sat and supped very kindly with me, and so to prayers and to bed.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 12: September/October 1661 Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Did not stir out all day, but rose and dined below, and this day left off half skirts and put on a wastecoate, and my false taby wastecoate with gold lace; and in the evening there came Sir W. Batten to see me, and sat and supped very kindly with me, and so to prayers and to bed.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Did not stir out all day, but rose and dined below, and this day left off half skirts and put on a wastecoate, and my false taby wastecoate with gold lace; and in the evening there came Sir W. Batten to see me, and sat and supped very kindly with me, and so to prayers and to bed.

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Did not stir out all day, but rose and dined below, and this day left off half skirts and put on a wastecoate, and my false taby wastecoate with gold lace; and in the evening there came Sir W. Batten to see me, and sat and supped very kindly with me, and so to prayers and to bed.

    The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sep/Oct 1661 Pepys, Samuel 1661

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