Folies Bergère

American  

[faw-lee ber-zher] / fɔ li bɛrˈʒɛr /

noun

1. a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.

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Etymology

Origin of Folies Bergère

< French: the Bergère Follies, after rue Bergère, a street near which it was originally located

Example Sentences

Early on, he raises a champagne glass from Manhattan to the new career that surely awaits him designing for the Folies Bergère.

From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022

Macron’s timing for this show at the Panthéon was as deliberate as that chosen for Baker’s shows at the Folies Bergère.

From Slate • Jan. 18, 2022

She eventually received an invitation to perform with the Las Vegas outpost of the Folies Bergère, the vaunted Parisian cabaret group.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2018

Equally absurd is the cabaret provided by a chorus of black dancers in a speakeasy behind a corner drugstore, a show worthy of Josephine Baker at the Folies Bergère in 1920s Paris.

From The Guardian • May 18, 2013

That evening he went again to the Folies Bergère in the hope of finding the mysterious woman, for he was now more than ever anxious to discover who she was.

From Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories by French, Joseph Lewis