gentlemen's club
noun
a private club for wealthy or well-connected men which gives members access to rooms for dining, reading, socializing, and sometimes staying overnight.
gentlemen's clubs
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pluralof gentlemen's club.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Soho House started in London in the mid-90s as an antidote to the upscale gentlemen's clubs that lined Pall Mall.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2025
Like peaty whiskey or a fine cigar, it evokes cozy evenings by the fire, wood-and-leather gentlemen’s clubs or summertime camping trips where everyone ends up smelling like campfire together, so no one notices anymore.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
Ms. Hall and Mr. Owen’s recent passions include obscurities on English gentlemen’s clubs, Japanese photographs of hippies in ’70s Big Sur, bootleg D.I.Y. fanzines about River Phoenix and cult-film marketing materials.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2017
In between it all were football fields, gentlemen’s clubs, churches, schools, casinos, Waffle Houses, Cracker Barrels and outlet stores.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2016
Nationalism, if you like, has never existed among us except as a distraction for gentlemen's clubs, and Moscow ones at that.
From The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
