music hall

noun

: a vaudeville theater
also : vaudeville

Examples of music hall in a Sentence

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So my first show in 1975 had a theme of the music hall, from the 1700s to the present day. Ingrid Schmidt, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Dec. 2024 Butler announces $9 million in renovations to Clowes Memorial Hall Part of that will go toward building a new 1,400-capacity music hall, with the goal to make the campus an arts and entertainment hub. Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Dec. 2024 The stark beauty of Samuel Beckett’s absurdist classic, part music hall romp, part abstract painting, was awakened in a production starring two gifted comics who didn’t overplay their slapstick hands, Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024 Leigh, a doctor’s son who grew up middle-class in a working-class neighborhood in Manchester, came up with his method after a youth spent studying traditional performance, from music hall to theatre to the circus, and wanting to see real people, real lives, onstage and onscreen. Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for music hall 

Word History

First Known Use

1842, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of music hall was in 1842

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“Music hall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/music%20hall. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.

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