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- noun Plural form of
clubman .
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Examples
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Many respectable money – lenders would have required "further information" before they would discount his bills; and "clubmen" in general — save, perhaps, those ancient quidnuncs who know everybody, from Adam downwards — had but little acquaintance with him.
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Harold, accustomed, as the youngest, to lonely antics and to sports that asked no sympathy, was absorbed in "clubmen":
The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame 1895
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the "clubmen" who would have run through a brick wall for the cause.
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Old Trumble seems not to have risen above the picturesque cast of supernumerary Anglo-Irish clubmen extras in this admittedly exciting tale.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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"He's sure the real thing," he told one of his fellow-clubmen afterwards, in the smoking-room of the Alta-Pacific.
Chapter I 2010
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Not many London clubmen do - by Jove, if he was unarmed, that would be famous!
Watershed 2010
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The success with which Blair pursued this strategy greatly influenced the Conservatives in their choice of David Cameron to succeed the "four clubmen" of Major, William Hague, Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Howard.
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His fellow clubmen had heard him proclaim that miscegenation was the only hope of the white race, and his intimates knew, in a general way, of his attraction to dark-skinned women.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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His fellow clubmen had heard him proclaim that miscegenation was the only hope of the white race, and his intimates knew, in a general way, of his attraction to dark-skinned women.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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Has Fraser Nelson has been hobnobbing with too may Tory clubmen?
John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the... 2008
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