Cabaret

What does Cabaret mean in American Law?

The definition of Cabaret in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

A public place where food, alcoholic beverages, and entertainment, especially musical, are provided together, i.e., a night club with a classier name. Like all assertedly pleasurable things of dubious morality (e.g., tobacco, liquor, gambling), sometimes subject to special taxation, a “cabaret tax.”