rare. [ad. It. cantambanco, f. canta-re to sing + banco bench.] A singer on a stage or platform; hence, contemptuously, a common ballad-singer.
[1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie (Arb.), 96. Small and popular Musickes song by these Cantabanqui vpon benches and barrels heads.]
1834. Sir H. Taylor, Artevelde, I. iii. i. He was no tavern cantabank.
