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
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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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Their music was a blend of blues rock and hard rock with elements of cabaret.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
The “Firework” hitmaker and Trudeau confirmed their relationship in October, when they stepped out hand in hand at a cabaret show in Paris, where they had been celebrating Perry’s birthday.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 12, 2026
What she presents is more like the world’s campiest cabaret act, with the Bride as a mashup of Katharine Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis and maybe Natasha Lyonne.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
One of her original creations, the faded cabaret queen Lola Heatherton, armored herself in plastered-on wigs and stage finery, façades obscuring the jittery desperation of a woman hanging on by the quicks of her fingernails.
From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2026
In 1916 Satie concocted a baldly insulting parody of themes from Gounod’s opera Mireille, and several of his cabaret songs make fun of Massenet’s supposed sentimentality.
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
He partook of the glamorous bohemian nightlife in cafes, cabarets and dance halls, of which “Le Moulin de la Galette” was the most famous.
From New York Times ● May 11, 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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