balladeer

noun, verb — 2 senses

balladeer

noun

Etymology From ballad + -eer.

1

A singer, particularly a professional singer who performs ballads.

balladeer

verb

Etymology From ballad + -eer.

1

To sing a ballad

  • Revisiting familiar lied texts […] or simply balladeering in The Light That Is Felt, Ives begins songs the way we expect him to and then takes us someplace we would not have thought of going.2007 October 31, Bernard Holland, “Ives, Master of the Exotic and the Old”, in New York Times:

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