Monday Clubn.
/ˈmʌndeɪ ˌklʌb/, /ˈmʌndɪ ˌklʌb/, U.S. /ˈmənˌdeɪ ˌkləb/, /ˈməndi ˌkləb/ The name of any of various clubs which originally met on Mondays; spec. (a) U.S. a literary or political discussion club (now historical); (b) British Politics a right-wing Conservative club formed in 1961.
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Monday Club1863
1863 Harper's Mag. Dec. 53 Kennedy was a member of a Monday club of literary men, and punctual in attendance.
1915 (title) The Monday Club, New York City... Constitution and bylaws.
1962 Evening Standard 12 Feb. 6 (cartoon caption) Lord Salisbury has become patron of the ‘Monday Club’, a new group of Young Conservatives formed to ‘keep the Conservative Party Conservative’.
1973 Guardian 27 June 1/3 Mr Enoch Powell..banned reporters from a Monday Club meeting last night.
1975 William & Mary Q. 32 298 The New Yorkers took the name of the Monday Club.
1987 New Left Rev. Nov. 119 It was possible for radical Tory reformers..to slide to the Right of the Party..to affiliate to that most underrated Conservative organization, the Monday Club.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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