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The basement, meanwhile, serves as a discotheque and games room dedicated to the concept of Play.—Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 4 Dec. 2024 Cocaine was ubiquitous in discotheques across Miami by the late 1970s, when Blanco relocated from Colombia.—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024 An antique store turned novelty store Evangeline’s began as an antique and gift store, which shared a building space with a discotheque.—Emma Hall, Sacramento Bee, 13 July 2024 The second intifada’s grisly campaign of terrorist attacks directed against cafés, pizza parlors, discotheques, and other civilian gathering places killed over 1,000 Israelis and injured many thousands more, leaving deep scars in Israel’s national psyche.—Michael Scott Doran, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2019 See all Example Sentences for discotheque
Word History
Etymology
French discothèque, from disque disk, record + -o- + -thèque (as in bibliothèque library)
from French discothèque "nightclub with music for dancing," from disque "phonograph record, disk" and -thèque (the same ending as in French bibliothèque "library")
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