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Webster 1913 Edition
Beefsteak
Beef′steakˊ
(bēf′stāk)
, Noun.
A steak of beef; a slice of beef broiled or suitable for broiling.
Definition 2024
beefsteak
beefsteak
English
Noun
beefsteak (countable and uncountable, plural beefsteaks)
- (countable, uncountable) (A) steak cut from beef cattle.
- (countable) The beefsteak plant, also known as perilla and shiso (Perilla frutescens var. crispa).
- (uncountable) the herb prepared from the leaves of the beefsteak plant.
- (countable) A beefsteak tomato.
- (countable) A beefsteak mushroom.
- (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.
Translations
steak
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French
Etymology
Borrowing from English beefsteak.
Noun
beefsteak m (plural beefsteaks)
- Obsolete form of bifteck.