Cutty Sark

British  

noun

1. a three-masted merchant clipper built in Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869, now kept as a museum ship at Greenwich, London; badly damaged by a fire in 2007; restored then reopened in 2012

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Etymology

Origin of Cutty Sark

named after the witch in Robert Burns' poem Tam O'Shanter, who wore only a cutty sark (short shirt)

Example Sentences

And Mark Martin, from the Cutty Sark pub in Falmouth, complained that their get together had "stolen a week of the holiday season".

From BBC

Through the streets of Greenwich they go and past Cutty Sark as Manuela Schar leads the women’s wheelchair race by a significant distance.

From The Guardian

Mark Martin, from the Cutty Sark pub opposite the International Media Centre in Falmouth, said the summit had "stolen a week of the holiday season".

From BBC

That focuses the agenda for schools like Holy Family, a state-funded Catholic school in the London borough of Greenwich, home of the historic Cutty Sark clipper ship and Greenwich Mean Time.

From Seattle Times

I’d half expected him to pounce on the Cutty Sark and tear it open in front of us, but he only thanked us and put the bottle in the compartment underneath his upright gray-plastic bed tray.

From Literature