Named for a fabric made in Baghdad, it's a cat with a striped or brindled coat
... of, relating to, or made of 
tabby | striped and mottled with darker color; "brindled" (14 of 34 ... from Arabic al-
Attabiya, the name of a section of Baghdad, Iraq, which is associated with the... [DOC] [TLE] tabby - definition and meaning - Wordnik [PAR] A domestic cat with a striped or brindled coat of a gray or tawny color