ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. A group of minstrels.
  2. Any similar modern group performing song and verse.
  3. 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.

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Related dictionary entries include blackface, minstrelry, minstreling, muppetry, theaterical, guising.

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