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
It happened that not long after the Lord Chief Justice's attempt, a strolling minstrel visited the kingdom of the Emperor.
From The Blue Rose Fairy Book by Maurice Baring
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
This evening I was charmed by the vocal sounds of a strolling minstrel, attended by two drummers with small drums, called kuru, and a chorus of singing-girls collected from the neighbourhood.
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
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 Sir Walter Scott
