folk singer

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noun
  1. a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing their own accompaniment on a guitar.

Origin of folk singer

1
First recorded in 1895–1900

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How to use folk singer in a sentence

  • In the end, as has been seen, March gets an ill-word from the Greek folk-singer, who is not more constant in his praise of April.

    Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) | Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

British Dictionary definitions for folk singer

folk singer

noun
  1. a person who sings folk songs or other songs in the folk idiom

Derived forms of folk singer

  • folk singing, noun

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