BALLADEER

crooner, balladeer

(noun) a singer of popular ballads

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

balladeer (plural balladeers)

A singer, particularly a professional singer who performs ballads.

Verb

balladeer (third-person singular simple present balladeers, present participle balladeering, simple past and past participle balladeered)

To sing a ballad

Source: Wiktionary



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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