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cabaret

[kab-uh-rey, kab-uh-ret] / ˌkæb əˈreɪ, ˈkæb əˌrɛt /


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Their music was a blend of blues rock and hard rock with elements of cabaret.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

It opens with a big-band cover of the 1920 standard “Whispering,” leading into the track, and closes with a reference to the 1947 French cabaret song “C’est si Bon.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 15, 2026

The “Firework” hitmaker and Trudeau confirmed their relationship in October, when they stepped out hand in hand at a cabaret show in Paris, where they had been celebrating Perry’s birthday.

From MarketWatch Jun. 12, 2026

Covering not just movies and television but also theater and cabaret, Reed, a Southerner who seemed as much a part of Manhattan as the skyline, lorded over the arts with a homogenizing mainstream peremptoriness.

From Los Angeles Times May 12, 2026

His father, who had been a public official, ended up running a “teahouse” in Hiroshima—something like a cabaret.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

In Belle Époque Paris, the cabarets of Montmartre rebelled against industrial modernity and spawned an aggressive avant-garde sensibility.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Since debuting Lady Bushra four years ago, Amir has travelled the world performing at comedy nights and cabarets - from Los Angeles to Liverpool.

From BBC Apr. 22, 2024

It became the Savoy Ballroom, then Eastside Hall, when the city council, seeking to better serve Seattle’s Black community in 1946, relaxed its “unwritten but rigid policy” forbidding cabarets east of Eighth Avenue.

From Seattle Times Mar. 9, 2023

Yet while some chikhat singers have gained a global following, dancers are limited to cabarets and weddings.

From New York Times Oct. 6, 2022

Argentine sightseers crowded the docks to see the world-famous explorers, and showered the crew with invitations to dinners, dances, and cabarets.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Louder than, and about as funny as Jimmy Durante, Jack White is 44, has been hoofing, gagging, minstreling, cabareting since 1911.

From Time Magazine Archive




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