kitcat

English

Etymology

So called because the size was adopted by Sir Godfrey Kneller for the portraits he painted of the members of London's 18th-century Kit-Cat Club, named after innkeeper Christopher Catt.

Noun

kitcat (plural kitcats)

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