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noun

Cabaret n.

A tavern; a house where liquors are retailed. (Obs. as an English word.)

A type of restaurant where liquor and dinner is served, and entertainment is provided, as by musicians, dancers, or comedians, and usually providing space for dancing by the patrons; similar to a nightclub. In some cases, the performers dance or sing on the floor between the tables, after the practice of a certain class of French taverns. The term cabaret is often used in the names of such an establishment.

The type of entertainment provided in a cabaret (2).

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cabaret" Quotes from Famous Books

... mighty were the cries and the oaths that issued from the cabaret's open doors and windows. The Villerville fisherman loved Bacchus only, second to Neptune; when he was not out casting his net into the Channel he was drinking up his spoils. It was during the sobering process only that affairs of a purely domestic nature engaged his attention. Some ...

— In and Out of Three Normady Inns • Anna Bowman Dodd

... Podvin's business, ostensibly, was that of keeping a low cabaret labelled "Rendez-Vous pour Cochers." It might have been more appropriately called a rendezvous for thieves, though this seems rather hypercritical when one knows the cabbies of the barriers. But the cabaret ...

— Mlle. Fouchette - A Novel of French Life • Charles Theodore Murray

... cabaret, Constance took a little tighter grip on herself and decided to take the plunge and see the affair out, although that sort of thing had very little ...

— Constance Dunlap • Arthur B. Reeve

... ourselves to say so to such amiable servitors. As a result, when we were leaving the city for a little trip, we determined to stay, on our return, at the Grunewald, a hotel like any one of a hundred others in the United States—marble lobbies, gold ceilings, rathskellers, cabaret shows, dancing, and page boys wandering through the corridors and dining-rooms, calling in nasal, sing-song voices: "Mis-ter Shoss-futt! Mis-ter Ahm-kaplopps! Mis-ter ...

— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street

... on, in the shade of the fort at Noisy-le-Sec, I saw a red gable and the sign of a tavern. As a tourist I have a passion for a cabaret: in practice, I find Vefours to unite perhaps a greater number ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 29. August, 1873. • Various

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