/kab'euh ray"/ for 1-4, 6, 7; /kab"euh ret'/ for 5 , n. , v. , cabareted /-rayd"/ , cabareting /-ray"ing/ .
n.
1. a restaurant providing food, drink, music, a dance floor, and often a floor show.
2. a café that serves food and drink and offers entertainment often of an improvisatory, satirical, and topical nature.
3. a floor show consisting of such entertainment: The cover charge includes dinner and a cabaret.
4. a form of theatrical entertainment, consisting mainly of political satire in the form of skits, songs, and improvisations: an actress whose credits include cabaret, TV, and dinner theater.
5. a decoratively painted porcelain coffee or tea service with tray, produced esp. in the 18th century.
6. Archaic. a shop selling wines and liquors.
v.i.
7. to attend or frequent cabarets.
[ 1625-35; camberete small room (c. F chambrette; see CHAMBER, -ETTE) ]
Syn. 2. nightclub, supper club, club.