chantant

American  

[shahn-tahn, shahn-tahn] / ʃɑnˈtɑ̃, ʃɑ̃ˈtɑ̃ /

adjective

Music.

1. melodious; tuneful.

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Etymology

Origin of chantant

1780–90; < French: present participle of chanter to sing; chant

Example Sentences

"Dans cette ecole, il y a/ Des oiseaux chantant tout le jour Dans les marronniers de la cour./ Mon coeur, mon coeur, mon coeur qui bat Est la."

From BBC

German Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Tightrope Walk and Russian painter Boris Grigoriev’s Café Chantant, for example, reveal a penchant for common urban happenings including circus and cabaret performances.

From Architectural Digest

Toulouse-Lautrec was commissioned to create the poster by the owner of the Divan Japonais, a café chantant in Paris’s Montmartre neighborhood.

From Architectural Digest

The caf� chantant is a long room lined with mats, and with rugs scattered over the floor, on which sit musicians and the regular customers of the place, who play cards and smoke long pipes, with which they rap continually on the tin ash-holders.

From Project Gutenberg

They consulted for some time, and then said that they were sorry, but the only gambling-house in the place closed at twelve, and so did the only caf� chantant; and as it was now nearly half-past twelve, every one was properly in bed.

From Project Gutenberg