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▪ I. ‖ cabaret1
(ˈkæbəreɪ, formerly ‖ kabarɛ)
Also 7 -ett.
[F.: of unknown origin: see Littré and Scheler.]
†1. A wooden dwelling, a booth, shed; = L. taberna. [Here perh. used on account of the connexion of taberna and tavern: but perh. an error of some kind for cabanet.] Obs.
1632Sir T. Hawkins Unhap. Prosper. 261 The greatest houses were heretofore but Cabarets, the Capitoll was at first covered with thatch.
2. a. A drinking house, a pot-house. (Now almost exclusively an alien word referring to France, etc.; but formerly somewhat naturalized.)
1655Bp. Bramhall Agst. Hobbes (J.) Suppose this servant passing by some cabaret, or tennis court, where his comrades were drinking or playing. 1662Pepys Diary 23 Sept., In most cabaretts in France they have writ upon the walls..‘Dieu te regarde’. 1673Dryden Marr. à la Mode v. i. 328 Sung two or three years ago in cabarets. 1682Wheler Journ. Greece ii. 203 At Gallata are some Christian Cabarets; but the Wine is dear. 1858De Quincey Autobiog. Sk. Wks. II. iv. 197 The little homely cabaret, which had been the scene of her brief romance.
b. A restaurant or night-club in which entertainment is provided as an accompaniment to a meal; also, the entertainment so provided, a floor-show. Also attrib.
1912W. Irwin Red Button 42 He spends most of his extra money at pool parlors, Austrian villages and cabaret shows. 1915T. Burke Nights in Town 254 Those melancholy places, the night clubs and cabarets. 1920F. Scott Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise (1921) ii. ii. 211 A famous cabaret star was at the next table. 1922Daily Mail 13 Nov. 7 Cabaret, as exemplified by the Midnight Follies at the Hotel Metropole, also broke all records... This cabaret form of entertainment is very popular just now. Ibid. 25 Nov. 13 The new cabaret show which was to have been started on Tuesday has been rehearsed for a fortnight. 1923Westm. Gaz. 22 May, There is to be a super cabaret at the Hotel Metropole on Friday evening. 1938G. Greene Brighton Rock ii. i. 68 The floor was cleared for the last cabaret of the evening.
3. A porcelain tea, coffee, etc., service sometimes accompanied by a small table or tray.
1856J. C. Robinson Invent. Mus. Ornamental Art 32 Old Sèvres porcelain... ‘Cabaret’, rose du Barry ground..the set consisting of four pieces. 1904Daily Chron. 9 June 3/2 A cabaret, painted with flowers, fruit, and trophies..by Lene père. 1968R. H. R. Smithies Shoplifter (1969) v. 98 A cabaret tray of Swansea porcelain.
▪ II. ‖ cabaret2 Obs.
[Fr.: Littré gives a conjecture of Saumaise that it represents L. combretum or cobretum ‘a kind of rush’: but there is no approach in sense.]
A plant: the Asarabacca (Asarum Europæum).
1580Baret Alv. H 208 An hearbe called Haselwort, or Cabaret, Perpensa..Bacchar. 1678A. Littleton Lat. Dict., Cabarick, or hazlewort, Perpensa. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 50 Cabaret or Wild Spikenard, grows in most parts of the Levant. |