A professional entertainer at social gatherings; esp. a singer, musician, or minstrel.
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| 释义 | society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > minstrelsy > [noun] > minstrel (9) gleemanc897 A professional entertainer at social gatherings; esp. a singer, musician, or minstrel. galegalea1250 A noisy fellow; a ‘sing-song’. minstrel?a1300 Originally (to the end of the 16th cent.): a person employed by a patron to provide entertainment by singing, playing music, storytelling… bard1449 In early Lowland Scottish used for: A strolling musician or minstrel (into which the Celtic bard had degenerated, and against whom many laws were… troubadour1728 One of a class of lyric poets, living in southern France, eastern Spain, and northern Italy, from the 11th to the 13th centuries, who sang in… jongleur1782 The Norman French term (technically used by modern writers) for an itinerant minstrel, who sang and composed ballads, told stories and otherwise… Subcategories:— group of (2) — leader of (1) |
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