Named for a fabric made in Baghdad, it's a cat with a striped or brindled coat
[DOC] [TLE] Tabby | Definition of Tabby by Merriam-Webster [PAR] 2 [2tabby] a : a domestic cat with a striped and mottled coatb : a domestic cat; ... 2 
: striped and mottled with darker color : brindled <a tabby cat> ... pattern was 
once made in a part of the city of Baghdad, now the capital of the modern nation 
of Iraq.