beefsteak club
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Noun
beefsteak club (plural beefsteak clubs)
- (historical) Any of a number of 18th- and 19th-century men's dining clubs in Britain and Australia that celebrated the beefsteak as a symbol of patriotic and often Whig concepts of liberty and prosperity.
- 1999, Michael Batterberry, Ariane Ruskin Batterberry, On the Town in New York, page 306:
- In the 1880s and 90s, a rash of nostalgic beefsteak clubs broke out in New York, but in the transition the original salty simplicity of a "beefsteak," as the feasts had come to be called, had been lost.