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Folies Bergère
[ French faw-lee ber-zher ]
noun
- a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Folies Bergère1
< French: the Bergère Follies, after rue Bergère, a street near which it was originally located
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Example Sentences
At one end of the square, an enterprising Frenchman built a frame building which he called "Folies Bergere."
From Project Gutenberg
At last I decided to go to the Folies-Bergere, that entertaining resort for gay women.
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