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kitcat

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1. kitcat - Noun

2. kitcat - Adjective

Meaning

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.

Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz., twenty-right 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.

A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood, called a cat, shaped like two cones united at their bases; tipcat.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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