discotheque

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree French discothèquebor. English discotheque Borrowed from French discothèque (“record library; discotheque”).

1. A nightclub where dancing takes place.

   “By night, it must be admitted, the place is something of a horror, with its endless repetitive bars and strip-joints and hot-doggeries and battalions of barkers competing with the howl of the discotheques.”