Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cut of beef taken from the thick end of the short loin, having a T-bone and a sizable piece of tenderloin.
- noun Archaic An alehouse or chophouse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A house at which porter, ale, and other malt liquors are retailed; an ale-house; also, such a house at which steaks, chops, etc., are served up; a chop-house.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A house where porter is sold.
- noun a steak cut from a sirloin of beet, including the upper and under part.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
public house whereporter was sold; often also servedsteaks ,chops etc - noun A cut of
beef taken from the thick end of the shortloin ; it has a T-shaped bone and a large piece oftenderloin ; aporterhouse steak
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large steak from the thick end of the short loin containing a T-shaped bone and large piece of tenderloin
Etymologies
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Examples
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If you prefer fish — and a fish that looks like a steak — get the monkfish porterhouse, which is wrapped in pancetta that keeps the flesh moist.
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If you prefer fish — and a fish that looks like a steak — get the monkfish porterhouse, which is wrapped in pancetta that keeps the flesh moist.
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He ordered the 48-ounce porterhouse, which is a very big, but not gargantuan steak.
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Tapas-style appetizers are followed by dishes such as porterhouse pork chop in apple sauce or grilled all pasture fed steak.
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Nobody Really says: porterhouse: If the draft is constitutional, then the mandate is probably constitutional.
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April 16, 2010, 12: 55 pm unlawyer says: porterhouse: In order to be African-American one must have at least one parent that is African-American.
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May 20, 2010, 8: 42 pm cboldt says: porterhouse: — clearly the 2nd Amendment (as interpreted by a strict constructionist jurist) would allow the states to deny anybody the ability to keep and bear arms, because it is a federalism provision just like the Electoral College.
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April 16, 2010, 6: 43 pm porterhouse says: pchuck:
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April 16, 2010, 1: 54 pm porterhouse says: unlawyer:
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