strolling minstrel
Example Sentences
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This relaxed, strolling minstrel evoked a stream of folksy vaudevillians, from Will Rogers through Guthrie and beyond.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2012
There is certainly no flattery in this," replied Luciè; "but I will confess nothing,—except that I danced away my spirits last evening, and was most melodiously disturbed afterwards, by some strolling minstrel.
From The Rivals of Acadia An Old Story of the New World by Harriet Vaughan Cheney
The Arthurian song of a strolling minstrel drifted up to him....
From The Executioner by Frank Riley
We, too, had our music; a strolling minstrel came to our tent by appointment to play on his guitar.
From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by James Richardson
He had fallen desperately in love with the beautiful daughter of a strolling minstrel.
From The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town by F. Earl Christy
