A café chantant of a more pretentious sort than the Maison Doucieux, but still the peculiar resort of the blousard—for there are café chantants of many grades in Paris—may be found in one of the back streets near the Boulevard St. Martin. Some of the cafés chantants are patronized by the well-dressed class, and a blousard is no more likely to be seen in their orchestra fauteuils than in the same division of the regular theatres.[…]Consommation is the convenient word of cafés chantants for food or drink of any kind, and every visitor is forced by the rules of the place to “consume” something as his title to a seat.

Nov 17, 1993, David Richardson, “Exchange student to Nihon!”, in sci.lang.japan, Usenet, retrieved 2022-06-05:

I blame the new hard line on welfare for driving driving the vitally challenged onto the streets instead of leaving them in State run graveyards

Procatalepsis is a forme of speech by which the Orator perceiving aforehand what might be objected against him, and hurt him, doth confute it before it be spoken […].