cabaret
Americannoun
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cabarets
plural
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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
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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)
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It also features sparkling cameos from Penélope Cruz as a sultry cabaret dancer and Glenn Close as a Spanish-speaking American professor.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
Eleazar performs two songs in the film, a heartbreakingly vulnerable cabaret version of Radiohead’s “Creep” and a stripped-down, tender reading of “One Night Only” from “Dreamgirls.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Their music was a blend of blues rock and hard rock with elements of cabaret.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
It opens with a big-band cover of the 1920 standard “Whispering,” leading into the track, and closes with a reference to the 1947 French cabaret song “C’est si Bon.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Unlike the frivolous goings-on in Paris or New York, though, the cabaret style of Weimar Berlin had a deadly serious undertow.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
In Belle Époque Paris, the cabarets of Montmartre rebelled against industrial modernity and spawned an aggressive avant-garde sensibility.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Since debuting Lady Bushra four years ago, Amir has travelled the world performing at comedy nights and cabarets - from Los Angeles to Liverpool.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2024
Grünbaum was the son of a Jewish art dealer and law school student who began performing in cabarets in Vienna in 1906.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
This year’s festival, which arrives with more than 50 performances, as well as cabarets, craft workshops, panels, open mics and films, celebrates the legacy of the master puppeteer and theater artist Ralph Lee.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
On the other hand, there’s Bep’s engagement, the Pentecost reception, the flowers, Mr. Kugler’s birthday, cakes and stories about cabarets, movies and concerts.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
Louder than, and about as funny as Jimmy Durante, Jack White is 44, has been hoofing, gagging, minstreling, cabareting since 1911.
From Time Magazine Archive
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