kit-cat
['kitkæt]
- n.
- 基特卡特俱乐部成员
- =kit-cat portrait
英文词源
- kit-cat
- club founded by Whig politicians in London, 1703; so called from Christopher ("Kit") Catling, keeper of the tavern on Shire Lane, near Temple Bar, in which the club first met. Meaning "a size of portrait less than half length" (1754), supposedly is because the dining room in which portraits of club members hung was too low for half-length portraits.