cabaret
pronunciation
How to pronounce cabaret in British English:
UK [ˈkæbəreɪ]
How to pronounce cabaret in American English:
US [ˌkæbəˈreɪ]
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- Noun:
- a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink
- a series of acts at a night club
Word Origin
- cabaret (n.)
- 1650s, "tavern, bar, little inn," from French cabaret, originally "tavern" (13c.), which is of uncertain origin, perhaps from Middle Dutch cambret, from Old French (Picard dialect) camberete, diminutive of cambre "chamber" (see chamber (n.)). The word was "somewhat naturalized" in this sense [OED]. It was borrowed again from French with a meaning "a restaurant/night club" in 1912; extension of meaning to "entertainment, floor show" is by 1922.
Example
- 1. You know he is at the cabaret .
- 2. Hard work was his cardinal virtue ; in 50 years of cabaret , theatre and music hall he never missed a show .
- 3. She moved to a pension for girls in moulins and found night work as a singer in a cabaret . By day , she worked as a seamstress .
- 4. In june 1978 , yaeko taguchi , who was 22 and a bar worker , dropped her two children , aged one and two , at a daycare centre before going to work at the hollywood cabaret in tokyo 's ikebukuro district .
- 5. This is not the cabaret , my friend .