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Meistersinger, n. pl. and sing.|ˈmaɪstəˌzɪŋə(r), -sɪŋ-|
[G.: cf. master-singer.]
German lyric poets and musicians in the 14th to 16th centuries organized in guilds and having an elaborate technique; (sing.) a member of such a guild.
1845Longfellow Poets & Poetry of Europe (1847) 373/2 These Chambers [of Rhetoric] were to Holland, in the fifteenth century, what the Guilds of the Meistersingers were to Germany. [1854A. G. Henderson tr. Cousin's Philos. of Kant i. 5 The poetry of this period is to be found in the songs of the Minnesängers and the Meistersängers.] 1954Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 5) VII. 912/2 The Meistersinger were either preoccupied with the observance of rules or were rarely visited with inspiration. 1968Encycl. Brit. XV. 118/2 The Meistersinger were not popular figures, as Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger suggests; they were largely ignored by professional men.
fig.1924R. Campbell Flaming Terrapin iv. 56 Across the night with dismal hum The hurricanes, your meistersingers, come. |