cabaret
noun
cab·a·ret
ˌka-bə-ˈrā 
ˈka-bə-ˌrā
1
archaic
: a shop selling wines and liquors
2
a
: a restaurant serving liquor and providing entertainment (as by singers or dancers) : nightclub
b
: the show provided at a cabaret
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Examples of cabaret in a Sentence
a singing superstar who got her start singing in the cabarets of New York City
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Timothy Reif is one the legal heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, an Austrian cabaret performer and art collector who died in the Dachau concentration camp in 1941.
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Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 14 May 2024
As for entertainment, the property recently opened Voltaire, an avant-garde cabaret featuring a rotating roster of headliners like Kylie Minogue and Jason Derulo, and their partner arena the Sphere has changed the city’s skyline.
—David Morris, Travel + Leisure, 7 May 2024
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Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 14 May 2024
As for entertainment, the property recently opened Voltaire, an avant-garde cabaret featuring a rotating roster of headliners like Kylie Minogue and Jason Derulo, and their partner arena the Sphere has changed the city’s skyline.
—David Morris, Travel + Leisure, 7 May 2024
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“Cabaret.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cabaret. Accessed 23 May. 2024.
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cabaret
noun
cab·a·ret
ˌkab-ə-ˈrā
ˈkab-ə-ˌrā
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