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cabaret

[ kab-uh-rey kab-uh-ret ]

noun

  1. a restaurant providing food, drink, music, a dance floor, and often a floor show.
  2. a caf é that serves food and drink and offers entertainment often of an improvisatory, satirical, and topical nature.

    Synonyms: , ,

  3. a floor show consisting of such entertainment:

    The cover charge includes dinner and a cabaret.

  4. a form of theatrical entertainment, consisting mainly of political satire in the form of skits, songs, and improvisations:

    an actress whose credits include cabaret, TV, and dinner theater.

  5. a decoratively painted porcelain coffee or tea service with tray, produced especially in the 18th century.
  6. Archaic. a shop selling wines and liquors.


verb (used without object)

cabareted cabareting
  1. to attend or frequent cabarets.

cabaret

/ ˈ°ìæ²úəˌ°ù±ðɪ /

noun

  1. a floor show of dancing, singing, or other light entertainment at a nightclub or restaurant
  2. a nightclub or restaurant providing such entertainment
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cabaret1

1625–35; < French: tap-room, Middle French dial. ( Picard or Walloon) < Middle Dutch, denasalized variant of cambret, cameret < Picard camberete small room (cognate with French chambrette; chamber, -ette )
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cabaret1

C17: from Norman French: tavern, probably from Late Latin camera an arched roof, chamber
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Example Sentences

Scheel conceived its productions as a kind of cabaret dinner theater — a place for his talented friends to belt out show tunes of a cinematic variety when such opportunities were glancingly few in L.A.

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It was as a cabaret singer performing at a restaurant in the coastal city of Durban that she caught the royal eye, the academic said.

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The jokey, gleefully profane lyrics are stimulating in the moment but then quickly forgotten, like novelty songs in a clever college cabaret.

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“Alone†is a song you could’ve heard in World War I — in a black-and-white film or in a cabaret somewhere in Europe.

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The cast of “Old Friends†is too numerous for that level of personal intimacy, so we’re left in a kind of limbo that’s neither cabaret nor full-scale revival.

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