tabby

1) A word applied from the seventeenth century to a type of material, generally silk taffeta (OED).

It is said to derive ultimately from the quarter of Bagdad where it was originally made: 1655 my blacke suite, the cloake of cloath lyned with tabby, Babthorpe.

places Babthorpe
dates 1655

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