Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Singing.
- noun Instrumental music of an easy, smooth, and singing style.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Mus.) Composed in a melodious and singing style.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective music Composed in a
melodious andsinging style.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Roy Rogers 1911-1988 fut un chanteur et acteur américain légendaire surnommé "le cow-boy chantant".
Archive 2010-06-01 Rene Meertens 2010
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(Soundbite of "C'est Si Bon" by Eartha Kitt) C'est si bon, De partir n'importe ou, Bras dessus bras dessous, En chantant des chansons, C'est si bon, De se dire des mots doux - De petit rien du tout - Mais qui en disent long.
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A part ca ma mere m'a acheté un truc qui me ressemble super beaucoup mais aussi quoi l'humour foireux ... un automate marmotte qui fait du nunchaku en chantant kung fu fighting quand tu lui appuie sur la papate gauche!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005
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A little cafe-chantant artist seemed to enter a great city only to be lost in the crowd; the prints of hundreds of other feet closed over hers.
Succedaneum 2004
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A band was playing in a cafe chantant hidden somewhere among the trees, and a woman had just stopped singing.
The Man Who Was Thursday Gilbert Keith 2003
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I expect I look as if I came from a café chantant and have had some adventure on the way.
Crime and Punishment 2002
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In the Grande Rue de Pera there was a café _chantant_ which was run by one Napoleon Flam.
Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray
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By the side of it are the terminus of the Bonneveine tram (p. 113) and the Alcazar Lyrique, a kind of superior café chantant.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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Theatres of every grade abound, from the Grand Opera House down to the poor little café chantant, where gaudily-dressed females electrify the audience with popular ballads.
The South of France—East Half C. B. Black
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We had been the round of the Greek cafés which flourish in such numbers in Smyrna, where polyglot concerts and the worst features of the _café chantant_ seem never to tire their patrons.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various
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