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
No doubt of it, Sir Knight," answered the governor; "but it is the strolling minstrel, and not the high-born English knight, against whom the charge is brought.
From Waverley Novels — Volume 12 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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 Christy, F. Earl
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
