Kit-Cat Club
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Kit-Cat Club
From Kit (as short for Christopher) Cat(ling) , alleged to be the keeper of a pie-house where the club met (with play on kit-cat, variant of tipcat; see kit 3, cat ( def. ) )
Example Sentences
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As a member of the fashionably rowdy London Kit-Cat Club I assumedly viewed with alarm the publicity which it received last week, due to the shocking behavior of a Lord.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the Whigs' Kit-Cat Club, Addison and Congreve fellowshipped with statesmen and lords; at the Tories' Scriblerus, Swift and his friends forgathered.
From Time Magazine Archive
The former society is described with great gusto by Ned Ward, who had for it many more pleasant adjectives than he could find for the Kit-Cat Club.
From Inns and Taverns of Old London by Shelley, Henry C. (Henry Charles)
Written on his admission to the Kit-Cat Club, in compliance with the rule that every new member should name his toast, and write a verse in her praise.
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James
He was secretary of the Kit-Cat Club, 1700.
From The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
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