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luncheon club

British  

noun

  1. social welfare (in Britain) an arrangement or organization for serving hot midday meals for a small charge to old people in clubs or daycentres

  2. a society or group of people who meet regularly for an organized lunch

    a ladies' luncheon club

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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During her cooking career, Clarissa ran her own catering business, worked on a yacht in the Caribbean and served 60 meals a day at her London luncheon club.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2014

Nowhere was the search for jobs more frenzied than in the noontime babble at the National Capital Democratic Club, a luncheon club that suddenly found itself doing a land office business.

From Time Magazine Archive

For those who take the elevator to the members' luncheon club above the high ceiling there is a bronze reminder of the daily battle: a bear & bull locked in bloody struggle.*

From Time Magazine Archive

General Motors office workers have a luncheon club, most popular speaker being Executive Vice President William S. Knudsen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Five of the younger men of the Embassy have formed a little luncheon club for the purpose of exchanging news and discussing and studying the military situation.

From The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone by Wood, Eric Fisher