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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

... in a cabaret near the Halles. One was dressed in the uniform of a sergeant of the National Guard. He was a powerfully-built man, with a black beard and a mustache, and a rough crop of hair that stuck out aggressively ...

— A Girl of the Commune • George Alfred Henty

... 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 ...

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

... itself into a tumbler, and a hieroglyphical scrawl below attempted to express a promise of "good entertainment for man and horse." Brown was no fastidious traveller—he stopped and entered the cabaret [* See Note 1. ...

— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott

... portrait De ce digne et bon prince; C'est l'enseigne d'un cabaret Fameux dans la province. Les jours de fete, bien souvent, La foule s'ecrie en buvant Devant: Oh! oh! oh! oh! ah! ah! ah! ah! Quel bon petit ...

— The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh • William Makepeace Thackeray

... swarthy woman, with a pair of flashing black eyes,— proof that the world hadn't conjured down the devil within her, though it had had between sixty and seventy years to do it in,— came out of the Barrack Cabaret, of which she was the keeper, with some large keys in her hands, and marshalled us the way that we should go. How she told us, on the way, that she was a Government Officer (concierge du palais a apostolique), and had been, for I don't know how many years; and how she had shown these dungeons to ...

— Pictures from Italy • Charles Dickens

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