tabby
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The friendly tabby was in great health, her fur was fine and she did not look "dishevelled".
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Since then, the white and tabby cat, officially introduced on Downing Street's website as the "Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office", has reigned supreme from the country's most photographed doorstep.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
Across the pond, Larry, a stray tabby dubbed the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, lives at the British prime minister’s residence and regularly gets press coverage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
Undoubtedly, one sweet tabby will purr its way into your heart and become a “foster fail.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2025
Not with them but not far behind came the tabby cat.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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I foster cats and I’m actually fostering two sister tabbies right now — Lucy and Ethel — and the CatCafe Lounge has taken probably 12 of the cats I’ve fostered and gotten them adopted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
By varying the number of warp threads, weavers could create common Icelandic patterns, mostly basic weaves known as twills and tabbies.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 15, 2022
I have plans to make a music room, a library, and a cat heaven for my three tabbies, but I updated the studio first with plans to rent it out.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2022
For example, if he hears the expression “It’s raining cats and dogs,” he expects tabbies and terriers to fall from the skies.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2021
It has been a gala-time for the children, especially, and the petting which the different tabbies received would have turned their heads had they not been so well-bred and aristocratic.
From Harper's Round Table, May 28, 1895 by Various
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