Minstrelsy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Minstrelsy is a noun meaning The musical and other art and craft of a minstrel.
Meaning
The musical and other art and craft of a minstrel.
More Meanings
- A group of minstrels.
- Any similar modern group performing song and verse.
- A collection of minstrel ballads.
Example Sentences
Orfeo makes his way into this palace, and so charms the king with his minstrelsy, that he gives him back his wife.
They, of course, would change, but not again could she; henceforth no music for her in the Bush birds' minstrelsy, no pleasure in rivalry with buttercups for the butterflies' kiss.
Word Forms
- minstrelsies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include blackface, minstrelry, minstreling, muppetry, theaterical, guising.
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