"café chantant" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: café chantants [plural], cafés chantant [plural], cafés chantants [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|+|cafés chantant|cafés chantants|nolinkhead=1}} café chantant (plural café chantants or cafés chantant or cafés chantants)
  1. Alternative form of café-chantant Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: café-chantant
    Sense id: en-café_chantant-en-noun-DUYmtVxv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Having with a great show of combination, varied with puffs from his ever expiring cigar, completed this effort of genius, he chatted away incessantly on all kinds of subjects, never waiting for my remarks, but continually asking questions; and then suggested our taking a turn through the cafés chantant.",
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          "text": "A café chantant of a more pretentious sort than the Maison Doucieux, but still the peculiar resort of the blousard—for there are café chantants of many grades in Paris—may be found in one of the back streets near the Boulevard St. Martin. Some of the cafés chantants are patronized by the well-dressed class, and a blousard is no more likely to be seen in their orchestra fauteuils than in the same division of the regular theatres.[…]Consommation is the convenient word of cafés chantants for food or drink of any kind, and every visitor is forced by the rules of the place to “consume” something as his title to a seat.",
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          "ref": "2016, Mariano D’Amora, “Raffaele Viviani”, in A History of Neapolitan Drama in the Twentieth Century, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, page 29:",
          "text": "Nevertheless, the plot, the construction of the lines, and the fact that the proletarian characters played minor roles, whilst the major roles were still played by aristocratic characters were elements that relegated Petito and Minichini’s plays to the nineteenth century tradition. This alienated the new kind of audience that populated the halls of the cafés chantants.",
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