griot
French → English
(culture) Griot: a West African storyteller, singer, musician, and oral historian
Le griot du village a chanté l'histoire des ancêtres au son de la kora.
(English) The village griot sang the history of the ancestors to the sound of the kora.
Dans la culture mandingue, les griots sont les gardiens de la tradition orale.
(English) In Mandinka culture, griots are the guardians of oral tradition.
(figurative/derogatory) Storyteller for the gullible: a person who tells tall tales or deceptive stories
Les griots de la nouvelle économie ont disparu après le krach boursier.
(English) The storytellers of the new economy disappeared after the stock market crash.
Ne l'écoute pas, c'est un griot qui invente des mensonges pour séduire son public.
(English) Don't listen to him; he's a storyteller who invents lies to seduce his audience.
Entry ID: fr:en:griot · Source: refined · Type: vocabulary