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Boîte Entered Means Bwaht Fr Bwat Noun Nightclub

The flashcard teaches that 'boîte' is a noun meaning 'nightclub' or 'cabaret', and provides examples of its usage in sentences.

La carte mémoire enseigne que 'boîte' est un nom qui signifie 'boîte de nuit' ou 'cabaret', et fournit des exemples de son utilisation dans des phrases.

Back boîte \bwaht; Fr. bwat\
Front
noun
A nightclub; cabaret.

[Boîte entered English in the early 1900s from the French word of the same spelling, which literally means "box" but is also used to refer to a nightclub, from the phrase boîte de nuit which means "box of the night."]

Three more people entered the boîte and one of them was Clarisse. She saw Daniel, nodded without smiling and looked for a place to sit. - Hugh MacLennan, Return of the Sphinx, 1967

You're here now, at this groovy new boîte, for instance. - Kim Moritsugu, The Restoration of Emily, 2006

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