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kitcat
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kitcat, a.
- Designating a club in London, to which Addison and Steele belonged; -- so called from
, a pastry cook, who served the club with mutton pies. [1913 Webster]Christopher Cat - 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 theKitcat Club. Fairholt. [1913 Webster]
kitcat, n.
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. [1913 Webster]
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kitcat
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