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

They turned back, however, at the keystone of the bridge, the witch with the "cutty sark" holding up in triumph the abstracted tail of Maggie.

From Views a-foot by Taylor, Bayard

The cutty sark, so appropriate when displaying the free, vigorous stops of Maggie Lauder, is not to be worn by every lackadaisical lady's-maid of a muse.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various