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
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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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Alongside singer Marc Almond, the duo scored a worldwide hit with their cover of Gloria Jones' Tainted Love in 1984, and their debut album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret is considered a classic of electronic music.
From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025
Fosse suggests, through the Emcee, that though the West’s relationship to queerness may bear the pattern of a sine wave, the Grande Human Cabaret can never metaphorically or spiritually close.
From Salon • Oct. 4, 2025
Cabaret performer Werner Finck opened a club in 1929 and dared Gestapo members in the audience to write down his every word.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2025
He is the king of Broadway who is currently starring as the Emcee in the critically acclaimed Cabaret in the West End.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2025
At twenty past nine they walked across the street to the newly opened Westminster Abbey Cabaret.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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