strolling minstrel
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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
Is De Lacy sunk so low, that his dishonour shall be told by a common strolling minstrel, as calmly as if it were a theme for a vain ballad?
From The Betrothed by Scott, Walter, Sir
It happened that not long after the Lord Chief Justice's attempt a strolling minstrel visited the kingdom of the Emperor.
From The Art of the Story-Teller by Shedlock, Marie L.
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 Cheney, Harriet Vaughan
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 Richardson, James