Cutty Sark

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Cutty Sark¹

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

Example Sentences

The show, he wrote in a CNN.com article, “is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters -- with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes -- is glamorous and ‘vintage.’”

From Washington Post

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