boîten.
/bwat/ A small restaurant or night-club. Also boîte de nuit.
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café chantant1854
nightclub1871
bottle party1903
lokal1903
cabaret1912
boîte1922
supper club1927
nitery1929
hot spot1930
spot1930
clip-joint1933
nightspot1936
night box1938
Nachtlokal1939
partouze1959
1922 W. S. Maugham Writer's Notebk. (1949) 188 They'd gone to boîte after boîte till every penny was spent.
1925 A. Huxley Along the Road i. 6 In a Montmartre boîte..sat three young American girls.
1932 J. Laver Nymph Errant v. 101 Boîtes de nuit where the sham apaches were paid so much a night to impress the gaping visitor.
1942 D. Powell Time to be Born (1943) i. 26 ‘Jean's’, the new little boite..with red-checked tablecloths and a sixty-five cent dinner.
1960 Harper's Bazaar Aug. 60 The boîtes of the Left Bank.
1968 Times 13 Nov. 10/4 The opening of this first boite de nuit in the new shopping and entertainment centre of Kalininsky Prospekt.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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