英语词汇kit-cat的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

kit-cat. Though pastry cook Christopher (Kit) Catt—or Cat or Catling—created little mutton pies, he nevertheless travels in the company of Titians of the art world. Kit Catt’s mutton delights were called kit-cats and some leading Whigs of the early 18th century enjoyed them so much that they formed a club on his pastry shop premises in London. However, when Sir Godfrey Kneller was commissioned to paint 42 portraits of the Kit-Cat Club’s prominent members, who included Steele, Addison, Congreve, and Walpole, a problem soon presented it- self. The rooms were so low in height that Kneller had to re- strict his portraits to three-quarter size, each canvas measuring exactly 28 by 36 inches. Such canvases were called kit-cats, after the club in which they hung and the term is still used for any portrait of these dimensions representing less than half the length of the sitter but including the hands.

词汇	kit-cat
词源	kit-cat. Though pastry cook Christopher (Kit) Catt—or Cat or Catling—created little mutton pies, he nevertheless travels in the company of Titians of the art world. Kit Catt’s mutton delights were called kit-cats and some leading Whigs of the early 18th century enjoyed them so much that they formed a club on his pastry shop premises in London. However, when Sir Godfrey Kneller was commissioned to paint 42 portraits of the Kit-Cat Club’s prominent members, who included Steele, Addison, Congreve, and Walpole, a problem soon presented it- self. The rooms were so low in height that Kneller had to re- strict his portraits to three-quarter size, each canvas measuring exactly 28 by 36 inches. Such canvases were called kit-cats, after the club in which they hung and the term is still used for any portrait of these dimensions representing less than half the length of the sitter but including the hands.
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