minstrel
noun
a medieval poet and musician who sang or recited while accompanying himself on a stringed instrument, either as a member of a noble household or as an itinerant troubadour.
minstrels
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pluralof minstrel.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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My vision of Queens, when it’s perfect, is: There’s a hill with the sun behind it, and this crippled army of minstrels comes over the horizon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025
We are the last wandering minstrels, racing town to town, big clubs and small, piano player to piano player.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
The composer and songwriter Stephen Foster, a white Pittsburgher, wrote the 1853 melody, which blackface minstrels made into a hit.
From Salon ● May 5, 2022
Meanwhile, abolitionist Frederick Douglass made it a point to become the era’s most-photographed man, in direct opposition to a culture drenched in racist images of minstrels and contented slaves.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2020
He looked inside and saw gathered there King Phillip, Queen Rosemary, the Princess Pea, twenty noble people, a juggler, four minstrels, and all the king’s men.
From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo
