A gentlemen's club is a members-only private club of a type originally set up by and for British upper class men in the 18th century, and popularised by English upper-middle class men and women in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Today, some are more open about the gender and social status of members. Many countries outside the United Kingdom have prominent gentlemen's clubs. In the 1990s the term gentlemen's club began to be used as a promotional euphemism for strip clubs.
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Famous quotes containing the words gentlemen and/or club:
“If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say ... “Sweet Friend, for Jesus’ sake forbear.””
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“We have ourselves to answer for.”
—“Jennie June” Croly 1829–1901, U.S. founder of the woman’s club movement, journalist, author, editor. Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly and Mirror of Fashions, pp. 24-5 (January 1870)