Obs. [f. BALLAD sb. + -IER. App. not in Fr.] A street ballad-singer.
1637. Dedic. V., in Randolph’s Poems (1875), 504. They had tried the balladier’s or fiddler’s trade.
1657. Biggs, New Disp., § 256. Loose stage-player, Balladier, or blind harper.
