Folies Bergère

[ French faw-lee ber-zher ]

noun

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

Origin of Folies Bergère

¹

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

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How to use Folies Bergère in a sentence

At one end of the square, an enterprising Frenchman built a frame building which he called "Folies Bergere."
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At last I decided to go to the Folies-Bergere, that entertaining resort for gay women.
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