📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- a. 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.
- a. 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.
- 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.