beefsteak

From beef +‎ steak. Doublet of bifshtek and bistek.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiːfˌsteɪk/

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beefsteak (countable and uncountable, plural beefsteaks)

1. (countable, uncountable) (A) steak cut from a cattle beast (e.g., cow, steer).
   • 2011, Gillian Welch, “Tennessee”, in The Harrow & the Harvest‎^[1], performed by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings:

     Fa la la la
     Fa la la lee
     Now let me go, my honey oh
     back to Tennessee
     It's beefsteak when I'm workin,
     whiskey when I'm dry, and
     sweet heaven when I die
     It's beefsteak when I'm workin,
     whiskey when I'm dry, and
     sweet heaven when I die

2. (countable) Ellipsis of beefsteak plant, also known as perilla and shiso (Perilla frutescens var. crispa).
   1. (uncountable) The herb prepared from the leaves of the beefsteak plant.
3. (countable) Ellipsis of beefsteak tomato.
   • 2001, Patricia Mondore, A Perennial Faith: Finding Courage to Grow in the Garden of Life:

     I purchased a half dozen of the healthiest-looking beefsteaks I could find, and tenderly planted the young shoots, using plenty of fertilizer and mulch. I faithfully watered them every day and the little plants quickly shot up to an impressive height.

4. (countable) Ellipsis of beefsteak mushroom.
5. (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.

Borrowed from English beefsteak.

• IPA^(key): /bif.stɛk/

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beefsteak m (plural beefsteaks)

1. alternative form of bifteck

• “beefsteak”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse
• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “beefsteak”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette

beefsteak n (plural beefsteakuri)

1. obsolete form of biftec

• beefsteak in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN