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cab⋅a⋅ret
[kab-uh-rey for 1–4, 6, 7; kab-uh-ret for 5] 
əˈreɪ
noun, verb, -reted [-reyd] , -ret⋅ing [-rey-ing] .–noun
| 1. | a restaurant providing food, drink, music, a dance floor, and often a floor show. |
| 2. | a café that serves food and drink and offers entertainment often of an improvisatory, satirical, and topical nature. |
| 3. | a floor show consisting of such entertainment: The cover charge includes dinner and a cabaret. |
| 4. | a form of theatrical entertainment, consisting mainly of political satire in the form of skits, songs, and improvisations: an actress whose credits include cabaret, TV, and dinner theater. |
| 5. | a decoratively painted porcelain coffee or tea service with tray, produced esp. in the 18th century. |
| 6. | Archaic. a shop selling wines and liquors. |
–verb (used without object)
| 7. | to attend or frequent cabarets. |
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| cab·a·ret (kāb'ə-rā') n.
[French, tap-room, from Middle Dutch cabret, from Old North French camberette, from Late Latin camera, room; see chamber.] |
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cabaret
1655, from Fr., lit. "tavern," probably from M.Du. cambret, from O.Fr. (Picard dialect) camberete, dim. of cambre "chamber." Came to mean "a restaurant/night club" 1912; extension of meaning to "entertainment, floor show" is 1922.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Language Translation for : CABARET
Spanish:
cabaret,
German:
das Kabarett,
Japanese:
キャバレー
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