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minstreln. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French menestral. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman menestral, menestrel, minestral, ministral, etc., Old French menestral, menestrel, menesterel, manestrel, etc., servant (c1050), worker, artisan (1170), travelling poet or musician (1170; French ménestrel ) < post-classical Latin ministerialis ministerial n.Compare Old Occitan menestral artisan, craftsman, architect (13th cent.); also ( < French) Italian menestrello (late 19th cent.; earlier †minestrello (14th cent.)), Spanish ministril (14th cent.), Portuguese menestrel (16th cent. as ministrel, 15th cent. as manistrel). Compare also, with suffix substitution, Old French menestrer minstrel (French ménétrier village musician, (now historical) minstrel). society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > other types of servant ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 67 Neomeð nu ȝeme of swiche twa mesteres. þeose twa manere meonestrales [sc. the flatterer and the backbiter]. seruið hare lauerd þe deouel of helle. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland (Vesp.) (1873) C. vi. 60 (MED) Menestrales [c1400 Huntington Clerkes þat aren crouned..ben aires of heuene..And in queer and in churches cristes owene mynestres]. 2. society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > minstrel society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > minstrelsy > [noun] > minstrel society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by period > [noun] > bard ?a1300 (Bodl.) (1916) 360 (MED) Hem oftok a menestral; his harpe he bar arugge. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 5509 Menestrel he was god ynou & harpare in eche poynte. c1390 G. Chaucer 2035 Do come..my mynstrales And gestours for to tellen tales. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland (Vernon) (1867) A. Prol. 33 And summe Murþhes to maken as Munstrals cunne. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer (Hunterian) 764 There myghtist thou see these flowtours, Mynstrales, and eke jogelours. a1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker (1884) I. 693 Hic prestigiator, mynstralle. c1450 (1904) I. 245 He saw mynstrallis & iogullurs. c1450 (1904) I. 245 He said, hym had levur clethe Criste þer-with, or pure men, þan for to giff þaim to mynstrallis, for, he said, it was no noder to giff to mynstrals bod for to offyr to fendis. 1507–8 Kingston-on-Thames Borough Rec. in D. Lysons (1792) I. 226 To the menstorell upon May-day, 0 0 4. a1525 ( (1907) I. 59 Thei haue retained Mathew Ellerton..& John Trumpere, Mynstrells as for the Cite of Couentre. 1535 Matt. ix. 23 When Iesus came into the rulers house, and sawe the minstrels [similarly 1611] and the people raginge. 1539 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman (1902) II. 236 Item youe shall allowe to Mr. Brereton and Mr. Gryffith their chaplaynes and minstralles. 1559 Abp. Hethe in J. Strype (1824) I. App. vi. 403 Kinge Davyd..placed himselfe amongest the mynystrells. 1597 f. 146v The said John Cooke..shall..the said John Hill..instructe..in the..arte misterie and facultie of a minstrell. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor i. iv. 124 He called for a minstrell, who by his harmony might recompose his disunited and troubled spirit. 1706 (new ed.) Minstrel, a Player on the Violin; a Fidler, or Piper. 1767 T. Percy 9 The privileges and honours which were so lavishly bestowed upon the northern scalds, were not wholly with-held from the Anglo-Saxon Minstrels. 1788 558 Wi' ony menstral of your eild Ye'd shake a fa'. 1805 W. Scott (title) The lay of the last minstrel. 1850 O. Winslow vi. 181 The banquet is ready and the minstrels are tuning their harps. 1885 W. S. Gilbert i A wand'ring minstrel I, a thing of shreds and patches. 1928 W. W. Lawrence 46 The lines at the beginning [of Widsith] introducing the minstrel, and those at the end glorifying his profession. 1953 O. Caroe xiii. 223 The minstrels sang of heroes of the resistance, and their original work is therefore banned. society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [noun] 1586 106 He by misdemeanor spoiled his Patrimonie, became a minstrell, and for refuge a minister. ?1589 T. Nashe sig. 8v I forgette to tel you what a stirre he keepes against dumbe ministers, and neuer writes nor talkes of them, but hee calleth them minstrels. society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > [noun] 1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in (new ed.) 434 Music's force can..make..the lynx forget His wrath to man, and lick the minstrel's feet. 1819 W. Wordsworth 1 The Minstrels played their Christmas tune To-night beneath my cottage-eaves. 1881 D. G. Rossetti ix Behold this minstrel is unknown; Bid him depart, for I am minstrel here. 1987 Q Oct. 115/3 The waggish Essex minstrel's first two LPs and more [are] rounded up and repackaged. 3. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > variety, etc. > performers in variety, etc. > [noun] > black minstrel 1833 Oct. 481 He called to the musicians to cease..greatly to the discomfiture of the sable minstrel and his assistant, neither of whom, however, could refrain..from giving an occasional scrape on the fiddle, or a thump on the tambourine.] 1843 in G. C. D. Odell (1928) IV. 668 The Ethiopian Serenaders, or Boston Minstrels. 1846 24 Jan. 61/2 The Ethiopian serenaders. A party of American minstrels..commenced..a series of concerts. 1864 VI. 699/1 In most cases the members of the negro minstrel troupes are only negroes in name, with faces and hands blackened. 1873 R. Broughton III. 191 Who are they? Are they Christy Minstrels? 1904 29 Mar. 3/6 April 9 has been fixed for the last performance of the Mohawk Moore and Burgess Minstrels at St. James's Hall. 1943 12 174/2 The ‘blackface’ minstrel began with Graupner. 1959 10 Sept. 16/4 7.30 Black and White Minstrel Show: starring the Mitchell Minstrels and Stan Stennett. 1975 2 Oct. 846/1 Heavily made up, black-faced, white-lipped and -eyed like Christie Minstrels. the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > stimulant drug(s) > pill or tablet of 1966 18 6/2 The name ‘Purple Heart’ has been succeeded by a number of other names: ‘Blues’, ‘French Blues’, ‘Minstrels’, ‘Nigger Minstrels’, ‘Black and Whites’, ‘Black and Greens’, ‘Black and Tans’, ‘Black Bombers’ and so forth, each one being derived from the appearance of the tablet. 1967 M. M. Glatt et al. 115 Minstrel (black and white), Durophet. 1971 E. E. Landy 133 Minstrel, 12.5 mg. capsule of an amphetamine and a sedative. Compounds1511 in J. S. Brewer (1864) (modernized text) II. ii. 1451 [At Greenwich, to Piers Thoulouse], a minstrel shalmewer, 4l. 1553 T. Gresham in J. W. Burgon (1839) I. 463 How ys yt possibell that ayther a mynsterell-player, or..anny craftye men..to have the pressent vndrstonding of the feat of the Marchaunt Adventorer? 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch 1136 Even minstrell wenches of Samos, and such as professed dauncing..have over-topped kings and princes. 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer VI. xxiv. 81 This Minstrel-God..Stood proud to Hymn, and tune his youthful Lyre. 1801 S. Owenson 143 That strain was then respired, By thee, thou truant, long-lost minstrel boy. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iii, in 2nd Ser. II. 91 I met him..with a common minstrel wench, with her messan and her viol on his..arm. 1916 E. H. Porter iii. 29 Would you have me go to bed and leave a half-drunken, ungodly minstrel fellow in possession of our barn? 1965 J. M. Brewer 52 One of de minstrel mens what lose his job make up a song 'bout de circuit rider done put de minstrel shows out o' business. C2. 1767 T. Percy Ess. Anc. Minstrels in (1794) I. p. liv The old Minstrel-ballads are in the northern dialect. 1782 T. Warton 2 Long have I lov'd to catch the simple chime Of minstrel-harps, and spell the fabling rime. 1810 W. Scott vi. 262 Free from thy minstrel-spirit glanced, Fling me the picture of the fight. 1865 10 Apr. 1 Buckley and Budd's minstrel house is in blast. 1870 O. Logan 414 A clever actor..who wrote a burlesque..for a minstrel show. 1885 W. B. Yeats Island of Statues ii. iii, in July 139/2 He who hath the halcyon's wing As flaming minstrel-word upon his crest. 1947 A. Einstein xvii. 331 Of his [sc. S. C. Foster's] songs, Oh! Susanna was one of the oldest (1848) and was most widely circulated by the ‘minstrel shows’. 1975 3 Apr. 454/3 At the time of the Civil War, the minstrel show became less complex in its treatment of Negro life. 1987 E. Prager (1988) xxvii. 168 She'd come out and do her minstrel act around the house and make the servants laugh. b. 1847 A. W. Pugin 30 July (2001) III. 261 A bay window, high open roof..minstrel gallery. 1863 N. Hawthorne 197/2 Stepping majestically to the trill of harp and viol from the minstrels' gallery. 1966 27 Oct. 627/2 His last act was to order a copy of the minstrels' gallery in Exeter Cathedral to be set up in the Great Hall at Allington. 1992 Mar. 87/1 This small Elizabethan manor house has superb plasterwork, a minstrels' gallery, and intricate well-restored Elizabethan crewel work. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). minstrelv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: minstrel n. society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > celebrate in song 1873 C. G. Leland 127 Such poets as Bayard Taylor, who once minstrelled an Arab's horse. 1909 28 June 5/4 My love of the adventurous made me join a friend in going along the South Coast..playing the guitar and minstrelling. 1959 W. D. Snodgrass 47 A cricket, who had minstreled every night outside her window. 1993 Aug. 51/2 At the elementary school, he broke out his guitar and went minstreling among the kids squatted on the gym floor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.?c1225 v.1873 |
