chantant

[ shahn-tahn; French shahn-tahn ]

adjective

, Music.

1. melodious; tuneful.

Word History and Origins

Origin of chantant¹

1780–90; < French: present participle of chanter to sing; chant

Example Sentences

"Dans cette ecole, il y a/ Des oiseaux chantant tout le jour Dans les marronniers de la cour./ Mon coeur, mon coeur, mon coeur qui bat Est la."

From BBC

German Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Tightrope Walk and Russian painter Boris Grigoriev’s Café Chantant, for example, reveal a penchant for common urban happenings including circus and cabaret performances.

From Architectural Digest

Toulouse-Lautrec was commissioned to create the poster by the owner of the Divan Japonais, a café chantant in Paris’s Montmartre neighborhood.

From Architectural Digest

There are only five things the guides take you to see in Tangier—the caf� chantant, the governor's palace, the prisons, and the harem, to which men are not admitted.

From Project Gutenberg

The caf� chantant is a long room lined with mats, and with rugs scattered over the floor, on which sit musicians and the regular customers of the place, who play cards and smoke long pipes, with which they rap continually on the tin ash-holders.

From Project Gutenberg