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Tammy

noun

(pl. tammies)

Plain-woven (often glazed) fabric of wool or wool and cotton used especially formerly for linings and garments and curtains.

A woolen cap of Scottish origin. Synonyms: tam, tam-o'-shanter.

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"Tammy" Quotes from Famous Books

... flour as will dry it up; stir it over the fire for a few minutes, and gradually add the gravy you made in the frying-pan: let them simmer together for ten minutes; season with pepper, salt, a little mace, and a wineglassful of mushroom ketchup or wine; strain it through a tammy, or fine sieve, over the meat, and stew very gently till the meat is thoroughly warmed, If you have any ready-boiled bacon, cut it in slices, and put it to warm ...

— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous

... you one quarter as well as the other ducky little tammy toque with the bird of paradise wing in it that I admired on you and you honestly looked just too fetching in it though it was a pity to kill it, you cruel naughty creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

... black Tammy will do, and a chicken or twa, and we 'll watch the water rise and rise, till the puir creatures huddle togither and greet and cackle and howl, then I 'll loup (leap) intil the burn, and one after anither ...

— Stories of Many Lands • Grace Greenwood

Words linked to "Tammy" : tam, material, Tammy Wynetter Pugh, fabric, cloth, cap, textile