KIT-CAT CLUB

Domain	Definition
Literature	Kit-cat Club A club formed in 1688 by the leading Whigs of the day, and held in Shire Lane (now Lower Serle's Place) in the house of Christopher Cat, a pastry-cook, who supplied the mutton pies, and after whom the club was named Sir Godfrey Kneller painted forty two portraits of the club members for Jacob Tonson, the secretary, whose villa was at Barn Elms, and where latterly the club was held. In order to accommodate the paintings to the height of the club-room, he was obliged to make them three-quarter lengths, hence a three-quarter portrait is still called a kit-cat. Strictly speaking, a kit-cat canvas is twenty-eight inches by thirty-six. "Steele, Addison, Congreve, Garth, Vanbrugh, Manwaring, Stepney, Walpole, and Pulteney were of it; so was Lord Dorset and the present Duke. Manwaring ... was the ruling man in all conversation ... Lord Stanhope and the Earl of Essex were also members ... Each member gave his [picture]."- Pope to Spence Cowley the poet lived at Barn Elms Villas. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	KIT-CAT CLUB. A society of gentlemen, eminent for wit and learning, who in the reign of queen Anne and George I. met at a house kept by one Christopher Cat. The portraits of most of the members of this society were painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller, of one s. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Anagrams: KIT-CAT CLUB

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-i-k-l-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: bucktail.
	-3 letters: backlit, cubical, cubital, cutback.
	-4 letters: abulic, battik, buccal, cultic, lactic, likuta, tabuli, tactic, tictac.
	-5 letters: atilt, attic, aulic, batik, battu, baulk, black, built, cacti, caulk, clack, click, cluck, cubic, cubit, culti, kibla, tacit, taluk, tical, tilak, tubal.
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