/ˈɡɹi.oʊ/
OriginBorrowed from French griot.
- A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet.
“Griots may be the chroniclers of an important family or of a group of people — like the Bambara hunters’ griot — or itinerant poets and musicians who extol the praises of the person who has hired them”
“When ethnographers are asked to read their works to gatherings of Songhay, elders, they, too, are considered griots.
Ethnographers, however, usually consider themselves scholars, not griots. They prep”
“I decided that it would be better for a griot to take us back into the legend, rather than me, a contemporary man. Griots have deeply marked me. I already narrated my first film, Ta Dona, in the same ”
- countable, uncountableA Haitian dish of fried pork.
Formsgriots(plural)