Definition of minstrel in English:

minstrel

noun ˈmɪnstr(ə)lˈmɪnstrəl

1A medieval singer or musician, especially one who sang or recited lyric or heroic poetry to a musical accompaniment for the nobility.
（中世纪）吟游歌手（或乐师），豪门艺人（尤指以唱歌或随配乐朗诵抒情或英雄诗取悦贵族的歌手或乐师）
they listened to the minstrels singing songs of knightly prowess
Example sentencesExamples
- They were meant for minstrels to sing in baronial halls.
- Serfs had simple diets and traveling minstrels and entertainers came to the manor.
- We are the travelling bards of the renaissance; travelling minstrels that make music for people to make them happy.
- They will spend the first two nights mingling with minstrels and musicians at the fairytale, medieval-style Excalibur Hotel in Las Vegas.
- As minstrels and troubadours spread his legend across England, the peasantry embraced Robin Hood and his band of outlaws as their heroes just as much as the nobility idealized King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table as their own.
- While having his meal, the stranger listened to the minstrel who was performing in the tavern.
- Unlike the minstrel who sings freely, with his audience joining in, Spenser now has to deal with the expectations of his audience.
- Poetry is often sung by minstrels and ballad singers.
- Additionally, the cultural heritage has been immortalized in the famous epic poem Sonjara, sung by minstrels since the thirteenth century.
- Are we to believe that bushido warriors in Edo Japan, princes and minstrels in medieval Europe, Renaissance courtesans and Mongol nomads were lacking because their lives failed to square with a modern ideal of personal autonomy?
- Although most of their verse was set to music, sung by the Minnesinger themselves and often accompanied by professional minstrels, few melodies have survived from the first two centuries of the movement's existence.
- Traveling minstrels serenaded their clients with bawdy or heroic tales set to music.
- Their condition indicates long usage and there is textual evidence that they were used as illustrations to stories told and performed by travelling minstrels.
- The term buskers originates from an old French word for troubadours - minstrels, love singers or poets.
- The ladies rode on palfreys or were drawn on litters, escorted by gentlemen, squires and pages, with trumpeters, drummers and minstrels.
- With the invention of print, minstrels in their medieval form largely disappeared, becoming balladeers selling broadsheets of their songs and singing to advertise their wares, or stage-players.
- Where Benchtours and Théâtre Sans Frontières take us into another world, Borderline take us back in time to Italy's medieval minstrels with Dario Fo's Mistero Buffo.
- The minstrel was often paid to sing the praises of his master at the feast (as bad as the holiday slides!)
- Troubadours and minstrels used to be homeless buskers, driven from city to city (by baying mobs I hope) with the odd groat and a good bumming from Richard I being their only reward.
- True, if he had talked it over with someone, he would have realized that love can be a long, hard road, just like the minstrels sang about.
Synonyms
musician, singer, balladeer
historical bard, troubadour, jongleur
rare joculator
1. 1.1historical A member of a band of entertainers with blackened faces who performed songs and music ostensibly of black American origin.
  〈主史〉（由白人装扮成黑人表演的）演唱队成员
  Example sentencesExamples
  They dressed themselves up as black and white minstrels - that sort of thing,’ says Mark.
  ‘Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves’ is a two-part interrogation of the black minstrel tradition embodied by the famous face of Aunt Jemima.
  The success of burlesque in the late 1860s spawned several all-female white troupes performing standard minstrel routines in whiteface.
  Soon all blackface performers were known as minstrels.
  His career, which included stints as an amateur boxer, minstrel in black face and dancer, spanned seven decades in which he starred in five mediums: vaudeville, radio, stage, movies and television.
  Sometimes, as here, valor among black minstrels consisted of exercising discretion and living to fight another day.
  Looking in the mirror above the sink, he saw that his face was covered in a thin layer of sooty grime, like a black and white minstrel half way through putting on his make up.
  The blues ‘sound’ of black minstrel life is audible here, in the paradoxical conjunction of Pullman car luxury with preparations for ignominious flight.
  Later in his career, Douglass became a vocal opponent of minstrel humor, performed either by blacks or whites.
  Its writers were not able to assuage our memory of the minstrel with black characters who, without a full range of emotion, were no more than highly skilled laborers.
  This included the songs sung by black minstrels and early jazz musicians.
  Bal gives a personal, nuanced account of her own wrestling with the incongruence of a black minstrel tradition amidst The Netherlands' sea of whiteness.
  Producing affective switch points between two simultaneous registers of sympathy and ridicule, minstrel performances catalyze confrontations within social relations.
  How white performers acquired the knowledge and skills to imitate blacks on the minstrel stage is less apparent, though some information exists.
  Touring black minstrel troupes flourished from the 1860s into the early years of the 20th century, providing an avenue by which black Americans could make a living as musicians.
  Picking up where Elder Eatmore had left off, black entertainers continued to use minstrel antics into the 1940s and 1950s to parody and satirize black folk religion.
  Given the classroom incident that leads to his downfall, the resulting ironies multiply in ways that could only happen in a Roth novel and in an era when Black characters can turn minstrel stereotypes on their ear by masquerading as Jews.
  Even if some poor whites of the South got their first tastes of banjo and banjo-fiddle music from minstrels, those performers were the apprentices of black musicians representing a direct thread from blacks to whites to more whites.
  If the last generation of black minstrels hadn't been killed and almost killed by white Southerners on a daily basis-and been driven to take up arms-they wouldn't have needed that music either.
  To put the matter another way, black minstrels led blues lives that their burlesque art could not adequately express.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French menestral 'entertainer, servant', via Provençal from late Latin ministerialis 'servant' (see ministerial).

Originally a minstrel would be employed to provide a variety of entertainment. Minstrels sang, played music, told stories, juggled—whatever their employer demanded. A minstrel could be closer to a jester or buffoon than the singer of heroic and lyrical poetry that later writers romantically portrayed. Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lay of the Last Minstrel, published in 1805, was instrumental in developing this view. It is a romance based on an old Border ballad, put into the mouth of an ancient minstrel, the last of his race. The Irish poet Thomas Moore, who died in 1852, also played his part: in the song ‘The Minstrel Boy’ he wrote of ‘the warrior bard’ with ‘his wild harp slung behind him’. The original meaning of minstrel was simply ‘a servant’. It goes back to Latin minister ‘servant’, the source also of minister (Middle English).

Definition of minstrel in US English:

minstrel

nounˈminstrəlˈmɪnstrəl

1A medieval singer or musician, especially one who sang or recited lyric or heroic poetry to a musical accompaniment for the nobility.
（中世纪）吟游歌手（或乐师），豪门艺人（尤指以唱歌或随配乐朗诵抒情或英雄诗取悦贵族的歌手或乐师）
they listened to the minstrels singing songs of knightly prowess
Example sentencesExamples
- While having his meal, the stranger listened to the minstrel who was performing in the tavern.
- With the invention of print, minstrels in their medieval form largely disappeared, becoming balladeers selling broadsheets of their songs and singing to advertise their wares, or stage-players.
- As minstrels and troubadours spread his legend across England, the peasantry embraced Robin Hood and his band of outlaws as their heroes just as much as the nobility idealized King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table as their own.
- True, if he had talked it over with someone, he would have realized that love can be a long, hard road, just like the minstrels sang about.
- The ladies rode on palfreys or were drawn on litters, escorted by gentlemen, squires and pages, with trumpeters, drummers and minstrels.
- Additionally, the cultural heritage has been immortalized in the famous epic poem Sonjara, sung by minstrels since the thirteenth century.
- Although most of their verse was set to music, sung by the Minnesinger themselves and often accompanied by professional minstrels, few melodies have survived from the first two centuries of the movement's existence.
- The minstrel was often paid to sing the praises of his master at the feast (as bad as the holiday slides!)
- Serfs had simple diets and traveling minstrels and entertainers came to the manor.
- Their condition indicates long usage and there is textual evidence that they were used as illustrations to stories told and performed by travelling minstrels.
- They will spend the first two nights mingling with minstrels and musicians at the fairytale, medieval-style Excalibur Hotel in Las Vegas.
- Troubadours and minstrels used to be homeless buskers, driven from city to city (by baying mobs I hope) with the odd groat and a good bumming from Richard I being their only reward.
- Traveling minstrels serenaded their clients with bawdy or heroic tales set to music.
- Poetry is often sung by minstrels and ballad singers.
- The term buskers originates from an old French word for troubadours - minstrels, love singers or poets.
- Are we to believe that bushido warriors in Edo Japan, princes and minstrels in medieval Europe, Renaissance courtesans and Mongol nomads were lacking because their lives failed to square with a modern ideal of personal autonomy?
- Where Benchtours and Théâtre Sans Frontières take us into another world, Borderline take us back in time to Italy's medieval minstrels with Dario Fo's Mistero Buffo.
- We are the travelling bards of the renaissance; travelling minstrels that make music for people to make them happy.
- Unlike the minstrel who sings freely, with his audience joining in, Spenser now has to deal with the expectations of his audience.
- They were meant for minstrels to sing in baronial halls.
Synonyms
musician, singer, balladeer
1. 1.1historical A member of a band of entertainers with blackened faces who performed songs and music ostensibly of black American origin.
  〈主史〉（由白人装扮成黑人表演的）演唱队成员
  Example sentencesExamples
  This included the songs sung by black minstrels and early jazz musicians.
  Even if some poor whites of the South got their first tastes of banjo and banjo-fiddle music from minstrels, those performers were the apprentices of black musicians representing a direct thread from blacks to whites to more whites.
  ‘Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves’ is a two-part interrogation of the black minstrel tradition embodied by the famous face of Aunt Jemima.
  Given the classroom incident that leads to his downfall, the resulting ironies multiply in ways that could only happen in a Roth novel and in an era when Black characters can turn minstrel stereotypes on their ear by masquerading as Jews.
  They dressed themselves up as black and white minstrels - that sort of thing,’ says Mark.
  To put the matter another way, black minstrels led blues lives that their burlesque art could not adequately express.
  Touring black minstrel troupes flourished from the 1860s into the early years of the 20th century, providing an avenue by which black Americans could make a living as musicians.
  Producing affective switch points between two simultaneous registers of sympathy and ridicule, minstrel performances catalyze confrontations within social relations.
  The success of burlesque in the late 1860s spawned several all-female white troupes performing standard minstrel routines in whiteface.
  Looking in the mirror above the sink, he saw that his face was covered in a thin layer of sooty grime, like a black and white minstrel half way through putting on his make up.
  If the last generation of black minstrels hadn't been killed and almost killed by white Southerners on a daily basis-and been driven to take up arms-they wouldn't have needed that music either.
  Picking up where Elder Eatmore had left off, black entertainers continued to use minstrel antics into the 1940s and 1950s to parody and satirize black folk religion.
  Its writers were not able to assuage our memory of the minstrel with black characters who, without a full range of emotion, were no more than highly skilled laborers.
  Bal gives a personal, nuanced account of her own wrestling with the incongruence of a black minstrel tradition amidst The Netherlands' sea of whiteness.
  Later in his career, Douglass became a vocal opponent of minstrel humor, performed either by blacks or whites.
  His career, which included stints as an amateur boxer, minstrel in black face and dancer, spanned seven decades in which he starred in five mediums: vaudeville, radio, stage, movies and television.
  Sometimes, as here, valor among black minstrels consisted of exercising discretion and living to fight another day.
  The blues ‘sound’ of black minstrel life is audible here, in the paradoxical conjunction of Pullman car luxury with preparations for ignominious flight.
  Soon all blackface performers were known as minstrels.
  How white performers acquired the knowledge and skills to imitate blacks on the minstrel stage is less apparent, though some information exists.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French menestral ‘entertainer, servant’, via Provençal from late Latin ministerialis ‘servant’ (see ministerial).

词汇	minstrel
释义	Definition of minstrel in English: minstrel noun ˈmɪnstr(ə)lˈmɪnstrəl 1A medieval singer or musician, especially one who sang or recited lyric or heroic poetry to a musical accompaniment for the nobility. （中世纪）吟游歌手（或乐师），豪门艺人（尤指以唱歌或随配乐朗诵抒情或英雄诗取悦贵族的歌手或乐师） they listened to the minstrels singing songs of knightly prowess Example sentencesExamples They were meant for minstrels to sing in baronial halls. Serfs had simple diets and traveling minstrels and entertainers came to the manor. We are the travelling bards of the renaissance; travelling minstrels that make music for people to make them happy. They will spend the first two nights mingling with minstrels and musicians at the fairytale, medieval-style Excalibur Hotel in Las Vegas. As minstrels and troubadours spread his legend across England, the peasantry embraced Robin Hood and his band of outlaws as their heroes just as much as the nobility idealized King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table as their own. While having his meal, the stranger listened to the minstrel who was performing in the tavern. Unlike the minstrel who sings freely, with his audience joining in, Spenser now has to deal with the expectations of his audience. Poetry is often sung by minstrels and ballad singers. Additionally, the cultural heritage has been immortalized in the famous epic poem Sonjara, sung by minstrels since the thirteenth century. Are we to believe that bushido warriors in Edo Japan, princes and minstrels in medieval Europe, Renaissance courtesans and Mongol nomads were lacking because their lives failed to square with a modern ideal of personal autonomy? Although most of their verse was set to music, sung by the Minnesinger themselves and often accompanied by professional minstrels, few melodies have survived from the first two centuries of the movement's existence. Traveling minstrels serenaded their clients with bawdy or heroic tales set to music. Their condition indicates long usage and there is textual evidence that they were used as illustrations to stories told and performed by travelling minstrels. The term buskers originates from an old French word for troubadours - minstrels, love singers or poets. The ladies rode on palfreys or were drawn on litters, escorted by gentlemen, squires and pages, with trumpeters, drummers and minstrels. With the invention of print, minstrels in their medieval form largely disappeared, becoming balladeers selling broadsheets of their songs and singing to advertise their wares, or stage-players. Where Benchtours and Théâtre Sans Frontières take us into another world, Borderline take us back in time to Italy's medieval minstrels with Dario Fo's Mistero Buffo. The minstrel was often paid to sing the praises of his master at the feast (as bad as the holiday slides!) Troubadours and minstrels used to be homeless buskers, driven from city to city (by baying mobs I hope) with the odd groat and a good bumming from Richard I being their only reward. True, if he had talked it over with someone, he would have realized that love can be a long, hard road, just like the minstrels sang about. Synonyms musician, singer, balladeer historical bard, troubadour, jongleur rare joculator 1.1historical A member of a band of entertainers with blackened faces who performed songs and music ostensibly of black American origin. 〈主史〉（由白人装扮成黑人表演的）演唱队成员 Example sentencesExamples They dressed themselves up as black and white minstrels - that sort of thing,’ says Mark. ‘Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves’ is a two-part interrogation of the black minstrel tradition embodied by the famous face of Aunt Jemima. The success of burlesque in the late 1860s spawned several all-female white troupes performing standard minstrel routines in whiteface. Soon all blackface performers were known as minstrels. His career, which included stints as an amateur boxer, minstrel in black face and dancer, spanned seven decades in which he starred in five mediums: vaudeville, radio, stage, movies and television. Sometimes, as here, valor among black minstrels consisted of exercising discretion and living to fight another day. Looking in the mirror above the sink, he saw that his face was covered in a thin layer of sooty grime, like a black and white minstrel half way through putting on his make up. The blues ‘sound’ of black minstrel life is audible here, in the paradoxical conjunction of Pullman car luxury with preparations for ignominious flight. Later in his career, Douglass became a vocal opponent of minstrel humor, performed either by blacks or whites. Its writers were not able to assuage our memory of the minstrel with black characters who, without a full range of emotion, were no more than highly skilled laborers. This included the songs sung by black minstrels and early jazz musicians. Bal gives a personal, nuanced account of her own wrestling with the incongruence of a black minstrel tradition amidst The Netherlands' sea of whiteness. Producing affective switch points between two simultaneous registers of sympathy and ridicule, minstrel performances catalyze confrontations within social relations. How white performers acquired the knowledge and skills to imitate blacks on the minstrel stage is less apparent, though some information exists. Touring black minstrel troupes flourished from the 1860s into the early years of the 20th century, providing an avenue by which black Americans could make a living as musicians. Picking up where Elder Eatmore had left off, black entertainers continued to use minstrel antics into the 1940s and 1950s to parody and satirize black folk religion. Given the classroom incident that leads to his downfall, the resulting ironies multiply in ways that could only happen in a Roth novel and in an era when Black characters can turn minstrel stereotypes on their ear by masquerading as Jews. Even if some poor whites of the South got their first tastes of banjo and banjo-fiddle music from minstrels, those performers were the apprentices of black musicians representing a direct thread from blacks to whites to more whites. If the last generation of black minstrels hadn't been killed and almost killed by white Southerners on a daily basis-and been driven to take up arms-they wouldn't have needed that music either. To put the matter another way, black minstrels led blues lives that their burlesque art could not adequately express. Origin Middle English: from Old French menestral 'entertainer, servant', via Provençal from late Latin ministerialis 'servant' (see ministerial). Originally a minstrel would be employed to provide a variety of entertainment. Minstrels sang, played music, told stories, juggled—whatever their employer demanded. A minstrel could be closer to a jester or buffoon than the singer of heroic and lyrical poetry that later writers romantically portrayed. Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lay of the Last Minstrel, published in 1805, was instrumental in developing this view. It is a romance based on an old Border ballad, put into the mouth of an ancient minstrel, the last of his race. The Irish poet Thomas Moore, who died in 1852, also played his part: in the song ‘The Minstrel Boy’ he wrote of ‘the warrior bard’ with ‘his wild harp slung behind him’. The original meaning of minstrel was simply ‘a servant’. It goes back to Latin minister ‘servant’, the source also of minister (Middle English). Definition of minstrel in US English: minstrel nounˈminstrəlˈmɪnstrəl 1A medieval singer or musician, especially one who sang or recited lyric or heroic poetry to a musical accompaniment for the nobility. （中世纪）吟游歌手（或乐师），豪门艺人（尤指以唱歌或随配乐朗诵抒情或英雄诗取悦贵族的歌手或乐师） they listened to the minstrels singing songs of knightly prowess Example sentencesExamples While having his meal, the stranger listened to the minstrel who was performing in the tavern. With the invention of print, minstrels in their medieval form largely disappeared, becoming balladeers selling broadsheets of their songs and singing to advertise their wares, or stage-players. As minstrels and troubadours spread his legend across England, the peasantry embraced Robin Hood and his band of outlaws as their heroes just as much as the nobility idealized King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table as their own. True, if he had talked it over with someone, he would have realized that love can be a long, hard road, just like the minstrels sang about. The ladies rode on palfreys or were drawn on litters, escorted by gentlemen, squires and pages, with trumpeters, drummers and minstrels. Additionally, the cultural heritage has been immortalized in the famous epic poem Sonjara, sung by minstrels since the thirteenth century. Although most of their verse was set to music, sung by the Minnesinger themselves and often accompanied by professional minstrels, few melodies have survived from the first two centuries of the movement's existence. The minstrel was often paid to sing the praises of his master at the feast (as bad as the holiday slides!) Serfs had simple diets and traveling minstrels and entertainers came to the manor. Their condition indicates long usage and there is textual evidence that they were used as illustrations to stories told and performed by travelling minstrels. They will spend the first two nights mingling with minstrels and musicians at the fairytale, medieval-style Excalibur Hotel in Las Vegas. Troubadours and minstrels used to be homeless buskers, driven from city to city (by baying mobs I hope) with the odd groat and a good bumming from Richard I being their only reward. Traveling minstrels serenaded their clients with bawdy or heroic tales set to music. Poetry is often sung by minstrels and ballad singers. The term buskers originates from an old French word for troubadours - minstrels, love singers or poets. Are we to believe that bushido warriors in Edo Japan, princes and minstrels in medieval Europe, Renaissance courtesans and Mongol nomads were lacking because their lives failed to square with a modern ideal of personal autonomy? Where Benchtours and Théâtre Sans Frontières take us into another world, Borderline take us back in time to Italy's medieval minstrels with Dario Fo's Mistero Buffo. We are the travelling bards of the renaissance; travelling minstrels that make music for people to make them happy. Unlike the minstrel who sings freely, with his audience joining in, Spenser now has to deal with the expectations of his audience. They were meant for minstrels to sing in baronial halls. Synonyms musician, singer, balladeer 1.1historical A member of a band of entertainers with blackened faces who performed songs and music ostensibly of black American origin. 〈主史〉（由白人装扮成黑人表演的）演唱队成员 Example sentencesExamples This included the songs sung by black minstrels and early jazz musicians. Even if some poor whites of the South got their first tastes of banjo and banjo-fiddle music from minstrels, those performers were the apprentices of black musicians representing a direct thread from blacks to whites to more whites. ‘Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves’ is a two-part interrogation of the black minstrel tradition embodied by the famous face of Aunt Jemima. Given the classroom incident that leads to his downfall, the resulting ironies multiply in ways that could only happen in a Roth novel and in an era when Black characters can turn minstrel stereotypes on their ear by masquerading as Jews. They dressed themselves up as black and white minstrels - that sort of thing,’ says Mark. To put the matter another way, black minstrels led blues lives that their burlesque art could not adequately express. Touring black minstrel troupes flourished from the 1860s into the early years of the 20th century, providing an avenue by which black Americans could make a living as musicians. Producing affective switch points between two simultaneous registers of sympathy and ridicule, minstrel performances catalyze confrontations within social relations. The success of burlesque in the late 1860s spawned several all-female white troupes performing standard minstrel routines in whiteface. Looking in the mirror above the sink, he saw that his face was covered in a thin layer of sooty grime, like a black and white minstrel half way through putting on his make up. If the last generation of black minstrels hadn't been killed and almost killed by white Southerners on a daily basis-and been driven to take up arms-they wouldn't have needed that music either. Picking up where Elder Eatmore had left off, black entertainers continued to use minstrel antics into the 1940s and 1950s to parody and satirize black folk religion. Its writers were not able to assuage our memory of the minstrel with black characters who, without a full range of emotion, were no more than highly skilled laborers. Bal gives a personal, nuanced account of her own wrestling with the incongruence of a black minstrel tradition amidst The Netherlands' sea of whiteness. Later in his career, Douglass became a vocal opponent of minstrel humor, performed either by blacks or whites. His career, which included stints as an amateur boxer, minstrel in black face and dancer, spanned seven decades in which he starred in five mediums: vaudeville, radio, stage, movies and television. Sometimes, as here, valor among black minstrels consisted of exercising discretion and living to fight another day. The blues ‘sound’ of black minstrel life is audible here, in the paradoxical conjunction of Pullman car luxury with preparations for ignominious flight. Soon all blackface performers were known as minstrels. How white performers acquired the knowledge and skills to imitate blacks on the minstrel stage is less apparent, though some information exists. Origin Middle English: from Old French menestral ‘entertainer, servant’, via Provençal from late Latin ministerialis ‘servant’ (see ministerial).
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