cabaret

[ kab-uh-rey for 1–4, 6, 7; kab-uh-ret for 5 ]

/ ˌkæb əˈreɪ for 1–4, 6, 7; ˈkæb əˌrɛt for 5 /

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noun

a restaurant providing food, drink, music, a dance floor, and often a floor show.

a café that serves food and drink and offers entertainment often of an improvisatory, satirical, and topical nature.

a floor show consisting of such entertainment: The cover charge includes dinner and a cabaret.

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.

a decoratively painted porcelain coffee or tea service with tray, produced especially in the 18th century.

Archaic. a shop selling wines and liquors.

verb (used without object), cab·a·reted [kab-uh-reyd] /ˌkæb əˈreɪd/, cab·a·ret·ing [kab-uh-rey-ing] /ˌkæb əˈreɪ ɪŋ/.

to attend or frequent cabarets.

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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)

SYNONYMS FOR cabaret

2 nightclub, supper club, club.

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Examples from the Web for cabaret

Then we were dropping in on some cabaret in Denver, or perhaps it was a restaurant in Nevada.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Like Fosse did with Cabaret, Marshall excised two major characters: the Narrator and the Mysterious Man.
Rob Marshall Defends ‘Into the Woods’|Kevin Fallon|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Later, at the Rose.Rabbit.Lie club, Amber spontaneously sing “Proud Mary” with a cabaret singer.
Best Career Arc Ever: From Burlesque To Bartending|Anne Berry|September 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Blacklace also hosts nights for Killing Kittens, a sex club of sorts with cabaret acts held at venues around the U.K.
Inside London's Underground Burlesque and Fetish Scene|Liza Foreman|August 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Alan Cumming shimmered darkly and brilliantly as the emcee in the Cabaret performance.
Hugh Jackman's Tony Jumping Fail, Plus the Winners and Standout Moments of Broadway's Biggest Night|Tim Teeman|June 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He had married again, a woman in his own rank of life, and was keeping a cabaret in the Rue du Bac.
Notwithstanding|Mary Cholmondeley
Much credit must be given to those few guests who realized that the gym was supposed to represent a cabaret.
The 1926 Tatler|Various
Following the entrance of the Americans, the cabaret had gradually filled.
Zut and Other Parisians|Guy Wetmore Carryl
It is intended for Isadore Schwartz, a wicked cousin of his who is a victim of the cabaret habit.
You Should Worry Says John Henry|George V. Hobart
In addition to what I have saved I shall have the price of the cabaret.
Won by the Sword|G.A. Henty

British Dictionary definitions for cabaret

cabaret

/ (ˈkæbəˌreɪ) /

noun

a floor show of dancing, singing, or other light entertainment at a nightclub or restaurant

mainly US a nightclub or restaurant providing such entertainment

Word Origin for cabaret

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

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Word Origin and History for cabaret

cabaret

1650s, from French cabaret, originally "tavern" (13c.), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Middle Dutch cambret, from Old French (Picard dialect) camberete, diminutive of cambre "chamber" (see chamber). The word was "somewhat naturalized" in this sense [OED] It came to mean "a restaurant/night club" in English from 1912; extension of meaning to "entertainment, floor show" is from 1922.

cabaret

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verb (used without object), cab·a·reted [kab-uh-reyd] /ˌkæb əˈreɪd/, cab·a·ret·ing [kab-uh-rey-ing] /ˌkæb əˈreɪ ɪŋ/.

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cabaret

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