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n. A musician who performs in a public place, often for money
Usage examples of "street musician".
However, I recognized the man to be a street musician who played in the fish market and had once cursed me for not tossing money into his instrument case.
Hosea knew nothing of his past before his time as a street musician.
Eric was pretty sure that though Hosea was a practiced musician, he hadn't been playing for money for very long-at least not as a street musician.
Eric was pretty sure that though Hosea was a practiced musician, he hadnt been playing for money for very longat least not as a street musician.
Faintly she could hear the wooden flute of a street musician over the rumble of hooves and boots and the shrill groaning of an oxcart’.
Again his mind jumped, this time to a street musician in a doorway across the street.
They had picked up a street musician someplace, an old man with a primitive instrument of some sort that he crushed and stretched between his hands.