kit-cat

American  

[kit-kat] / ˈkɪtˌkæt /

Or kit-kat

noun

1. any of a series of half-length portraits of members of the Kit-Cat Club that were painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller between 1702 and 1717, measuring almost uniformly 28 × 36 inches (71 × 91 centimeters), characteristically portray the head, upper torso, and hands, and are now in the National Gallery, London.

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kit-cat

A portrait of an old man, kit-cat, supposed by Murillo.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

The size is a sort of oval kit-cat, not large.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I by Mrs. Russell Barrington

The clock on the mantle had been removed to the desk, and in its place was a large portrait neither square nor yet exactly kit-cat, but in proportion more nearly resembled the latter.

From Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

Here is a kit-cat of Lord Albemarle, then ambassador in Paris.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various

His prices until he went to London were certainly not high: two guineas for a three-quarter portrait and six for a whole figure on a kit-cat canvas.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook