kit cat

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{i} standard size canvas (71cm x 91 cm or 28 in x 36in) used for portraits that show the head and shoulders and hands of the person who is sitting

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kit cat portrait
portrait on a standard size canvas (71cm x 91 cm or 28 in x 36in) that shows the head and shoulders and hands of the person who is sitting
Kit-Cat Club
Association of early 18th-century Whig leaders that met in London. Members included the writers Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, and William Congreve and such political figures as Robert Walpole and the duke of Marlborough. They first met in the tavern of Christopher Cat, whose mutton pies were called kit-cats. Portraits of the 42 members were painted by Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723), and the specific size of the canvas (36 28 in. [91 71 cm]) used for the portraits became known as a kit-cat
kitcat
A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood, called a cat, shaped like two cones united at their bases; tipcat
kitcat
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
kitcat
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
kitcat
Designating a canvas used for portraits of a peculiar size, viz
kit cat
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