discotheque - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
Noun
discotheque (plural discotheques)
- (dated) A nightclub where dancing takes place.
- ✤ Synonym: disco
- ✤ By night, it must be admitted, the place is something of a horror, with its endless repetitive bars and strip-joints and hot-doggeries and battalions of barkers competing with the howl of the discotheques.1
Etymology
Borrowed from French discothèque (“record library; discotheque”).
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈdɪskəˌtɛk/, /ˈdɪskoʊˌtɛk/
- Audio (Southern England): 🔊
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Footnotes
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1969, the editors of Time-Life Books, “New Orleans”, in The USA: A Visitor’s Handbook, Amsterdam: Time-Life Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, chapter 2 (Famous Cities), page 160: ↩