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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

The “Firework” hitmaker and Trudeau confirmed their relationship in October, when they stepped out hand in hand at a cabaret show in Paris.

From MarketWatch Feb. 23, 2026

One of her original creations, the faded cabaret queen Lola Heatherton, armored herself in plastered-on wigs and stage finery, façades obscuring the jittery desperation of a woman hanging on by the quicks of her fingernails.

From Salon Feb. 4, 2026

Ms. Lindsey finds a compelling interpretive middle ground between raspy, Lotte Lenya-esque cabaret stylings and the smoothed-out renditions typical of opera singers.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 5, 2025

The closest I got to Kraków nightlife was when I delivered love notes between a man at a cabaret and a woman who lived in the apartment next door to ours.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

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

For decades, the Lido was one of the glitziest cabarets in Paris, home to extravagant, acrobatic numbers and the Bluebell Girls, a renowned chorus line.

From New York Times Jan. 10, 2023

On the other hand, there’s Bep’s engagement, the Pentecost reception, the flowers, Mr. Kugler’s birthday, cakes and stories about cabarets, movies and concerts.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

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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