Definition of kit-cat
1
usually capitalized K&C or both Ks
: a member of an early 18th century London club of Whig politicians and men of letters
2
[probably so called from the portraits hung in a dining room of the Kit-cat club whose low ceiling made the smaller size necessary]
: a portrait of less than half length but including the hands - some thirty major portraits hanging on the walls, besides kit-cats, heads, sketches … and all the lesser oddities of a collection many years in the making
- —Clemence Dane
