Editing Street performance (section)

== Etymology ==
The term ''busking'' was first noted in the English language around the middle 1860s in Great Britain. The verb ''to busk'', from the word ''busker'', comes from the Spanish root word ''buscar'', with the meaning "to seek".<ref name="Webster">[http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=busker "busker"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927195530/http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=busker |date=27 September 2007 }} Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary</ref> The Spanish word ''buscar'' in turn evolved from the [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] word ''*bhudh-skō'' ("to win, conquer").<ref name="Diccionario RAE">{{citation |url= http://dle.rae.es/?id=6LB1acb |title= buscar |work= Diccionario de la Lengua Española |edition=23rd |publisher= [[Real Academia Española]] |language= es }}</ref> It was used for many street acts, and was the title of a famous Spanish book about one of them, ''[[El Buscón]]''. Today, the word is still used in Spanish but mostly reserved for female street [[sex worker]]s, or mistresses of married men.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}}