单词 | cabaret |
释义 | cabaret /kab'euh ray"/ for 1-4, 6, 7; /kab"euh ret'/ for 5, n. , v. , cabareted /-rayd"/, cabareting /-ray"ing/. n. 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. v.i. 7. to attend or frequent cabarets. [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)] Syn. 2. nightclub, supper club, club. |
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