noun
or kit-kat ˈkitˌkat
Etymology: after Kit (Christopher) Cat or Catling, 18th century English keeper of the tavern where the club originally met
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