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  • noun Plural form of porterhouse.

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Examples

  • I threw all precaution to the winds, threw myself with fiercer zeal into the fight for socialism, laughed at the editors and publishers who warned me and who were the sources of my hundred porterhouses a day, and was brutally careless of whose feelings I hurt and of how savagely I hurt them.

    Chapter 28 2010

  • The recipe for the menu project is simple -- click, type, submit, repeat -- and has proven a runaway success, yielding almost half a million plates of Blue Points, porterhouses, croquettes, et al.

    The New York Public Library: All Hands on Deck: NYPL Turns to the Crowd to Develop Digital Collections The New York Public Library 2011

  • Money -- I could sleep in only one bed at a time, and of what worth was an income of a hundred porterhouses a day when I could eat only one?

    Chapter 28 2010

  • They are also the most expensive: Ribeyes, porterhouses, T-bones, strip steaks, and cuts from the tenderloin.

    Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn: How to Grill Great Steakhouse Steaks 2010

  •  First the guy offered dinner at a high-end steakhouse, porterhouses like marble slabs, keen vintage port, Cuban Cohibas sold on the sly.

    Thinly Sliced Raw Fish 2010

  • But they are a lot smaller than beef porterhouses.

    Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn: Recipe For Mom: Mother's Day Spring Feast of Grilled Lamb Loin Chops with Grilled Asparagus and Garlic Mashed 2010

  • Peter Luger's Steaks Dry-aged porterhouses (36 to 38 ounces each) from the famous Brooklyn restaurant, with steak sauce and chocolate Luger coins; $133 from peterlugers. com.5.

    Holiday Gift Guide: Food 2007

  • If you're in the mood for beef, though, there are a few places I really like, all in the Ortigas area: Steak Jack in Greenhills has affordable porterhouses, similar to Double Decker's "grilled right outside" selection of t-bones and other steaks (along Ortigas near Meralco/Autohaus).

    poulet, porc, boeuf et l'huître Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • If you're in the mood for beef, though, there are a few places I really like, all in the Ortigas area: Steak Jack in Greenhills has affordable porterhouses, similar to Double Decker's "grilled right outside" selection of t-bones and other steaks (along Ortigas near Meralco/Autohaus).

    Archive 2004-06-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • No beers, no porterhouses, just hardware and software and DSL fees.

    Archive 2004-04-01 2004

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