English▸ noun entertainment held in a nightclub or restaurant while the audience eats or drinks at tables:
she was seen recently in cabaret
[as modifier] a cabaret act.
▪ a nightclub or restaurant where entertainment is performed:
the dance halls and cabarets of Montmartre.
– ORIGIN mid 17th century (denoting a French inn): from Old French, literally ‘wooden structure’, via Middle Dutch from Old Picard camberet ‘little room’. Current senses date from the early 20th century.