chantant
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of chantant
1780–90; < French: present participle of chanter to sing; see chant
Example Sentences
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Madeleine is half French: I knew her first when she was singing in a cafe chantant on the Champs Elysees.
From Nightfall by Anthony Pryde
After talking it over, the Seniors were graciously pleased to adopt Gipsy's idea, and began to draw up a programme for the café chantant.
From The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life by John Campbell
The thing's written like a cafe chantant skit, not a political satire.
From The Gadfly by E. L. (Ethel Lillian) Voynich
A band was playing in a cafe chantant hidden somewhere among the trees, and a woman had just stopped singing.
From The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Towards four o'clock everybody showed a tendency to migrate in the direction of the café chantant.
From The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life by John Campbell
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