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Moulin Rouge

[ French moo-lan roozh ]

noun

  1. a dance hall in the Montmartre section of Paris, France, opened in 1889 and famous for its cancan dancers and the drawings of its performers and customers made there by Toulouse-Lautrec.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Moulin Rouge1

< French: literally, red mill

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Example Sentences

My favorite movies were Moulin Rouge and Gone with the Wind.

And if you are imagining Satine from Moulin Rouge floating around on a diamond swing, think again.

Indeed, a poll of British moviegoers in 2010 anointed Moulin Rouge!

The Australian filmmaker Luhrmann, best known for the boisterous Bohemian musical Moulin Rouge!

It cries out to be a Russian Moulin Rouge; it will only be a matter of time before we see Thomas on the big screen.

Dodo made his dbut at the Moulin Rouge at eight o'clock on the evening of his first day in Paris.

Its popularity, from the tourist viewpoint, at least, certainly falls far short of that enjoyed by the Moulin Rouge.

No stately measure was this, but a vulgar caper of the Moulin Rouge that recked not of singers or of drum-beat.

Beaufort had said that later on he might go to the Moulin Rouge.

Down they come from the “Moulin Rouge,” shouting, singing, and yelling.

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