[ noun ] a performer who works in vaudeville <noun.person>
New vaudevillian Bill Irwin's "As Seen on TV" offers only amusing moments instead of the sustained genius of his stage show, "The Regard of Flight."
He was carried on stage as a 6-month-old baby by his vaudevillian mother.
Hollywood's stars shed tears for Sammy Davis Jr., the exuberant song-and-dance man who started as a goggle-eyed child vaudevillian and battled to the glittery top of the entertainment world.
Then he partnered the great Mistinguett when he was 23 and she 36 and with whom he at once started a prolonged affair. He had found his metier and whatever later triumphs he enjoyed on the world stage, Maurice remained au fond a French vaudevillian.