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cab·a·ret

(kăb′ə-rā′)

1. A restaurant or nightclub providing short programs of live entertainment.

2. The floor show presented by such a restaurant or nightclub.

[French, tap-room, from Middle Dutch cabret, from Old North French camberette, from Late Latin camera, room; see chamber.]

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cabaret

(ˈkæbəˌreɪ)

1. a floor show of dancing, singing, or other light entertainment at a nightclub or restaurant

2. chiefly US a nightclub or restaurant providing such entertainment

[C17: from Norman French: tavern, probably from Late Latin camera an arched roof, chamber]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

cab•a•ret

(ˌkæb əˈreɪ)

n.

1. a restaurant providing food, drink, and often a floor show or other entertainment; nightclub or café.

2. the entertainment at a cabaret.

3. Archaic. a shop selling wines and liquors.

[1625–35; < French: tap-room, Middle French dial.]

cabaret

Musical entertainment offered in a nightclub or restaurant usually inolving singing and dancing.

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Noun	1.	cabaret - a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink; "don't expect a good meal at a cabaret"; "the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night"; "he played the drums at a jazz club" night club, nightclub, nightspot, club dive, honkytonk - a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall spot - a business establishment for entertainment; "night spot" supper club - usually a small luxurious nightclub
	2.	cabaret - a series of acts at a night club floor show, floorshow show - the act of publicly exhibiting or entertaining; "a remarkable show of skill"

Translations

مَلْهى لَيْلي

kabaret

Kabarett

cabaret café-concert spectacle de cabaret

kabaré

kabarett

cabaret cabarettistico

kabaretas

kabarejs

cabaret

[ˈkæbəreɪ] N → cabaret m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

cabaret

[ˈkæbəreɪ] n (= show) → spectacle m de cabaret

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

cabaret

n → Varieté nt, → Varietee nt; (satirical) → Kabarett nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

cabaret

[ˈkæbəreɪ] n → cabaret m inv

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

cabaret

(ˈkӕbərei) noun

an entertainment given in a restaurant etc. a singer in a cabaret.

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It was quite the custom, after dinner, for many of the better classes of society, especially when entertaining curious Easterners, to spend an hour or several in motoring from dance-hall to dance-hall and cheap cabaret to cheap cabaret.

They fawned upon him for an invitation to sit at his table and buy beer for him in whatever garish cabaret Michael was performing.

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"The sign Notre Dame; it is an old cabaret, which I have transformed into a private house in two days."

"At ten years' purchase, my dear Raoul; a superb affair, I bought the house for thirty thousand livres; it has a garden which opens to the Rue de la Mortillerie; the cabaret lets for a thousand livres, with the first story; the garret, or second floor, for five hundred livres."

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It may be a cabaret in the Latin Quarter, a cafe in some obscure Italian village, a boozing ken in sailor-town, and it may be up at the club over Scotch and soda; but always it will be where John Barleycorn makes fellowship that I get immediately in touch, and meet, and know.

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He told her about the Cabaret du Neant, the Abbaye, and the various haunts to which foreigners go.

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But no small cabaret for a straitened traveller being within sight, he had to seek one round the dark corner, where the cabbage leaves lay thickest, trodden about the public cistern at which women had not yet left off drawing water.

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The little cabarets and sutlers' shops along the bay resounded with the scraping of fiddles, with snatches of old French songs, with Indian whoops and yells, while every plumed and feathered vagabond had his troop of loving cousins and comrades at his heels.

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de Treville's, spread themselves about in the cabarets, in the public walks, and the public sports, shouting, twisting their mustaches, clanking their swords, and taking great pleasure in annoying the Guards of the cardinal whenever they could fall in with them; then drawing in the open streets, as if it were the best of all possible sports; sometimes killed, but sure in that case to be both wept and avenged; often killing others, but then certain of not rotting in prison, M.

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The story of the cabaret card illustrates how small men with a little bit of power can inhibit creative expression, stifle artistic growth, and humiliate individual citizens, all in the name of the "public good."

Show me your license, Daddy-O: how New York City tried to regulate bebop to death

STEPHEN HOLDEN NYT SYNDICATE WHEN the 23rd-annual New York Cabaret Convention begins three nights of performances on October 17 at Rose Hall at Jazz at Lincoln Centre, it will start a new chapter both for the convention and the nostalgic genre it celebrates.

At Cabaret Convention, only the songs remain the same

It straddles the arena and the campsite and will include The Slam Tent, The all-New Cabaret Club andThe Sunset Club.Fun will include circus,cabaret and,of course,choons.