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单词 yacht club
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yacht club
a. An association formed to combine the operations of persons interested in the promotion or prosecution of some object; the purpose is often indicated in the title, as Alpine club, athletic club, chess club, football club, literary club, natural history field club, tennis club, yacht club, etc.; benefit club, clothing club, coal club, goose club, etc.Many of these are solely devoted to the object for which they are organized; others combine therewith some of the convivial features of sense 13, or even the permanent organization of sense 15. Here belong the publishing clubs, as the Abbotsford, Bannatyne, Roxburgh, Spalding, etc., which differ from societies with similar objects chiefly in their limitation of membership to a fixed number.
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club1755
Orange Lodge1806
special interest group1908
1755 (title) The Game at Cricket, as settled by the Several Cricket Clubs.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 2 The solemn public seal of sanction they have received from two clubs of gentlemen in London, called the Constitutional Society, and the Revolution Society. View more context for this quotation
1812 Examiner 11 May 291/1 The benefit club..forms something of a provision against adversity.
1859 Peaks, Passes, & Glaciers 1st Ser. vii Early in the year 1858, it was resolved to give scope for the extension of this mutual feeling amongst all who have explored high mountain regions, by the formation of the Alpine Club.
1887 M. E. Braddon Like & Unlike I. x. 228 St. Austell had got the commoner into the Jockey Club.
1890 Times (Weekly ed.) 3 Jan. 15/3 Her Majesty contributes £100 annually to the funds of the Royal Clothing Club at Windsor.
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