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Kilkenny Cats
Webster's Dictionary
Two cats fabled, in an Irish story, to have fought till nothing was left but their tails. It is probably a parable of a local contest between Kilkenny and Irishtown, which impoverished both towns.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Kilkenny Cats'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/k/kilkenny-cats.html. 1828.