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
City of Adelaide (1864) Scotland to the Netherlands to prepare for transport to Australia. In late November 2013, loaded on the deck of a cargo ship, "City of Adelaide" departed Europe bound for Port Adelaide, Australia, where she arrived on 3 February 2014. "City of Adelaide" is the world's oldest surviving clipper ship, of only two that survive — the other is "Cutty Sark" (built 1869; a tea-clipper and now a museum ship and tourist attraction in Greenwich, south London). With "Cutty Sark" and (built 1878; a sloop-of-war in Chatham), "City of Adelaide" is one of only three surviving ocean-going ships of composite construction