Folies Bergère

[ French faw-lee ber-zher ]

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noun

a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.

< French: the Bergère Follies, after rue Bergère, a street near which it was originally located

The next day I commented on the cat's behaviour to some friends who had also been to the Folies-Bergère on different nights.

Armande de Fleury, the young pianissimo danseuse from the Folies Bergère is about to sing.

Do you remember seeing me at the Folies Bergère a month ago?

They occupied a 'loge' in the crammed, gorgeous, noisy Folies-Bergère.

It is the clou of their performance for a week's engagement at the Paris Folies-Bergère.

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