cabaret
Americannoun
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a restaurant providing food, drink, music, a dance floor, and often a floor show.
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a caf é that serves food and drink and offers entertainment often of an improvisatory, satirical, and topical nature.
- Synonyms:
- club, supper club, nightclub
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a floor show consisting of such entertainment.
The cover charge includes dinner and a cabaret.
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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.
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a decoratively painted porcelain coffee or tea service with tray, produced especially in the 18th century.
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Archaic. a shop selling wines and liquors.
verb (used without object)
noun
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a floor show of dancing, singing, or other light entertainment at a nightclub or restaurant
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a nightclub or restaurant providing such entertainment
Etymology
Origin of cabaret
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; see chamber, -ette)
Example Sentences
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CABARET, Haiti — Hurricane Jose, a powerhouse tropical cyclone barreling northwest toward the Caribbean islands already hammered by Irma, is now a “little weaker but still a dangerous Category 4 hurricane,” officials said.
From Washington Post • Sep. 8, 2017
CABARET, voted the Tony and Drama Critics' Circle awards as Best Musical, mounts a mountain of a production on a molehill of a book.
From Time Magazine Archive
CABARET, winner of eight Tony Awards, including one for Best Musical, is all binding and no book.
From Time Magazine Archive
CABARET, a musical based in prewar Germany, excites the senses with the low browhaus style of its choreography, scenery and costumes, but dulls the mind with commercial cliches for book and score.
From Time Magazine Archive
If you don't believe me, come with me to my CABARET.
From The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
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