From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmusic hallˈmusic hall noun British English 1 [uncountable]APT a type of entertainment in the theatre in the 19th and early 20th centuries consisting of performances by singers, dancers, and people telling jokes SYN vaudeville2 [countable]APT a theatre used for music hall shows
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music hall• It must be a music hall comedian's dream.• The service areas, with their awful tea and rubber sandwiches, had become a music hall joke.• Jack Firebrace told a series of jokes in the style of a music hall comic.• So far only men entertainers have been allowed - music hall acts and that sort of thing.• Outside the stately music hall, two-story white pillars are quietly rotting away.• At least 33 shows have been cancelled and the music hall will be boarded up for good within three months, Palladium officials said.• It is a play which, again, has not entirely abandoned the traditions of the music hall. 