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Kitcat

Kitcat \Kit"cat`\, a.

  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.

Kitcat

Kitcat \Kit"cat`\, 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.

Kitcat roll (Agric.), a roller somewhat in the form of two cones set base to base. [Prov. Eng.]

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kitcat

n. (context archaic English) A short portrait, 28 or 29 by 36 inches.

Usage examples of "kitcat".

I have also recently been informed that he's only holding down his present job with Kitcat and Aitken because you led the senior partner to believe that in time they will be administering the Hardcastle portfolio.

He rang Kitcat & Aitken, a distinguished firm of stockbrokers in the City of London, and instructed them to buy $250,000 worth of shares in Discovery Oil.