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cab⋅a⋅ret

[kab-uh-rey for 1–4, 6, 7; kab-uh-ret for 5] 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.

Origin:
1625–35; < F: tap-room, MF dial. (Picard or Walloon) < MD, denasalized var. of cambret, cameret < Picard camberete small room (c. F chambrette; see chamber, -ette )


2. nightclub, supper club, club.
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cab·a·ret   (kāb'ə-rā')   
n.  
  1. A restaurant or nightclub providing short programs of live entertainment.

  2. The floor show presented by such a restaurant or nightclub.


[French, tap-room, from Middle Dutch cabret, from Old North French camberette, from Late Latin camera, room; see chamber.]
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Word Origin & History

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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