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Webster 1913 Edition


Kitcat

Kit′catˊ

,
Adj.
1.
Designating a club in London, to which Addison and Steele belonged; – so called from
Christopher Cat
, a pastry cook, who served the club with mutton pies.
2.
Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-eight or twenty-nine inches by thirty-six; – so called because that size was adopted by
Sir Godfrey Kneller
for the portraits he painted of the members of the
Kitcat
Club.
Fairholt.

Kit′catˊ

,
Noun.
A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood, called a cat, shaped like two cones united at their bases; tipcat.
Cotton.
Kitcat roll
(Agric.)
,
a roller somewhat in the form of two cones set base to base.
[Prov. Eng.]

Definition 2024


kitcat

kitcat

English

Noun

kitcat (plural kitcats)

  1. (archaic) A short portrait, 28 or 29 by 36 inches.
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