Cabaret burlesque, drag shows, or a solo vocalist with a pianist, as well as the venues which offer this entertainment, are often advertised as cabarets. The first known use of the word "cabaret" was in 1655. It is may be derived from the Middle Dutch "cambret", itself probably derived from an earlier form of "chambrette", little room, or from the Norman French "chamber" meaning tavern, itself derived from the Late Latin word "camera" meaning an arched roof. The word "cabaret" came to mean "a restaurant or night club" by 1912. The word "cabaret" was originally Flemish (and possibly Picard before that).
Picard language Douai, and northeast Artois around Béthune and Lens). It is also named rouchi around Valenciennes; or simply as patois by Northerners in general. Linguists group all of them under the name "Picard". In general, the variety spoken in Picardy is understood by speakers in Nord-Pas-de-Calais and vice versa. Today, Picard is usually classified as merely a dialect of French as spoken in France by French linguists, rather than as a standalone language or distinct dialect in its own right, primarily due to French's heavy influence over the centuries when both French (Francien dialect) and Picard were developing from a common