Definition of Minstrels. Meaning of Minstrels. Synonyms of Minstrels

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Definition of Minstrels

Minstrel
Minstrel Min"strel, n. [OE. minstrel, menestral, OF. menestrel, fr. LL. ministerialis servant, workman (cf. ministrellus harpist), fr. L. ministerium service. See Ministry, and cf. Ministerial.] In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician. --Chaucer.

Meaning of Minstrels from wikipedia

- instruments. Minstrels performed songs which told stories of distant places or of existing or imaginary historical events. Although minstrels created their...
- and surp****ed the Virginia Minstrels in po****rity. Shortly thereafter, Edwin Pearce Christy founded Christy's Minstrels, combining the refined singing...
- In line with Mars' re-branding, Minstrels were brought under the Galaxy brand and are now sold as "Galaxy Minstrels", referring to the use of Galaxy...
- since the success of acts such as the Virginia Minstrels in Liverpool in the 1840s and Christy's Minstrels in London in the 1850s. These led directly to...
- A minstrels' gallery is a form of balcony, often inside the great hall of a castle or manor house, and used to allow musicians (originally minstrels) to...
- Minstrel (1811 ship) Galaxy Minstrels, a type of chocolate candy The Minstrel, a Thoroughbred racehorse All pages with titles beginning with Minstrel...
- Christy's Minstrels, sometimes referred to as the Christy Minstrels, were a blackface group formed by Edwin Pearce Christy, a well-known ballad singer...
- yet exist, and the New Christy Minstrels delivered a robust new sound. Sparks named his group after Christy's Minstrels, a blackface group formed by Philadelphia-born...
- local milieu. Modern Cape Minstrel tradition was influenced by the visit to the Cape by American minstrels. Old Cape minstrels, such as "The Ethiopians"...
- Virginia Minstrels or Virginia Serenaders was a group of 19th-century American entertainers who helped invent the entertainment form known as the minstrel show...