Insurance has always been a clubbish sort of business.

As for consecutive business meetings, he said, "They're fine - the lobby lounge is becoming very clubbish."

'Tis a clubbish thing to make a joke of one another's character.'

They managed this by being secretive and clubbish and never soliciting job applications.

On weekend nights the vibe goes clubbish, with hookahs and belly dancers in the house.

They were elected to conquer the Senate, 11 newcomers, several of whom campaigned to do away with the Senate's clubbish ways and pork-barrel politics.

The Old Boy Network is a clubbish fraternal conspiracy that protects the self-interest of a limited few.

At last she came to rest in a library lined with glass-enclosed bookcases and filled with self-consciously clubbish leather furniture.

The men all belong to the clubbish Stepford Men's Association, which Walter joins to Joanna's dismay.

It has a lot of clubbish rites such as the "Firework", the "Shuttlecock Club" and a dedicated drink, the "Bullshot".

It has also brought social changes, as the clubbish old order in the financial district gave way to a meritocracy, with East Enders competing on equal footing against Eton graduates.

To avoid the clubbish atmosphere of the Rose Room, the backdrop for daily gatherings of the Round Table, they met in the small Oak Room restaurant next to the lobby.

What Barker catches, better than any dramatist since, is the knowing banter in the airless Tory salons, the clubbish maneuvering as the party leaders loll in their leather armchairs with their smiles and their knives.

Golf reference books confirm that it is the oldest municipal course in the nation, a surprisingly tradition-laden place: its old-fashioned wooden lockers beneath gaping skylights were filmed in the movie "Wall Street" to connote a sort of clubbish timelessness.

He said N.Y.U. hopes to remind New York that 14th Street, now a cut-rate shopping district, once was the epicentor of Manhattan cuisine and clubbish culture, home not only to Luchow's but also to Delmonico's and the Academy of Music.

As a novice in a clubbish profession, Mr. Kennard once recalled that he sent out so many resumes, got invited to so many interviews and was rejected for so many jobs that he made a vow: "I decided I would never close my door to a student."

The Cornelia spa, at 663 Fifth Avenue - with high-tech face and body treatments running up to $500, a clubbish library decorated with chocolate velvet curtains and cushioned chaises, and a tented and heated outdoor lounge studded with orange trees where patrons can lounge year round - is one of the new breed.