cabaret

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All the same, the fact the cabaret is here at all is testimony to Marrakech's open nature.

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  1. noun A restaurant or nightclub providing short programs of live entertainment.
  2. noun The floor show presented by such a restaurant or nightclub.

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  • Once in the course of the evening she left him for a quarter of an hour to do her turn in cabaret, a Spanish song and dance with castanets; then she came back to him, and they danced again. —  Ruined City by Nevil Shute
  • From time to time one or other of the party left to do a turn of cabaret, and returned. —  Ruined City by Nevil Shute
  • The worst of the cabaret was over, he confided with that carefully cultivated contempt for everything that interfered with beautiful food, which was another of his more valuable affectations. —  The Fashion in Shrouds - Margery Allingham - Campion 10
  • We were on tour with a protest cabaret, and when we came to Glasgow, you came to see the show and talked to us afterwards. —  Deadline for Murder—Val McDermid—Lindsay Gordon 03
  • Every little while we came to what the Prince called a cabaret , and what the Princess called more poetically a bosquet , but which literally was a table and chairs surrounded by plants. —  In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875
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  1. French, tap-room, from Middle Dutch cabret, from Old North French camberette, from Late Latin camera, room; see chamber.

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  1. = Dutch cabaret, from French cabaret, a pot-house, tavern, “an ale-house, a tipling and victualling house, tent or booth [cf. French dial. (Norman) cabaret, eaves], also the herb huewort or foolfoot” (Cotgrave), from Old French cabaret, a place inclosed with lattice-work, the entrance of a cellar, also a racket in tennis.
 

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