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Cheshire cat definition

Cheshire cat

a proverbial grinning cat from Cheshire, England, esp. one described in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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