Cutty-sark (witch) about scantily-clad females. The popularity of this poem was such that the phrase "Well done, Cutty-sark!" entered the English language via Scots as an exclamation similar to "Bravo!" Literary allusions to the original Cutty-sark abound. In "Ulysses", James Joyce writes: "Laughing witches in red cutty sarks ride through the air on broom sticks" (p. 695). Cutty-sark (witch) "Cutty sark" is 18th-century Scots for "short chemise" or "short undergarment". Hyphenated, Cutty-sark was a nickname given to the witch Nannie Dee, a fictional character created by Robert Burns in his "Tam o' Shanter", after the garment she wore. The figurehead of the
Clipper route "Cutty Sark" made the fastest passage on this route by a clipper, in 72 days. "Thermopylae" made the slightly shorter passage from London to Melbourne, , in just 61 days in 1868–69. The following map traces the outbound route of the 1874 voyage from London to Adelaide, South Australia, of the clipper ship "City of Adelaide", which today is the world's oldest surviving clipper ship. The latitudes and longitudes are obtained from the surviving diary of 21-year-old passenger James McLauchlan. The return passage continued east from Australia; ships stopping at Wellington would pass through the Cook Strait, but otherwise this