English

Noun

beefsteak ‎(countable and uncountable, plural beefsteaks)

1. (countable, uncountable) (A) steak cut from beef cattle.
2. (countable) The beefsteak plant, also known as perilla and shiso (Perilla frutescens var. crispa).
3. (uncountable) the herb prepared from the leaves of the beefsteak plant.
4. (countable) A beefsteak tomato.
5. (countable) A beefsteak mushroom.
6. (countable, archaic): A celebratory dinner, commonly held in New York between about 1870 and 1940 involving the consumption of enormous quantities of broiled steak and beer.

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French

Etymology

Borrowing from English beefsteak.

Noun

beefsteak m ‎(plural beefsteaks)

1. Obsolete form of bifteck.