Minstrel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A medieval entertainer who traveled from place to place, especially to sing and recite poetry.
  • n. A lyric poet.
  • n. A musician.
  • n. A performer in a minstrel show.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A medieval traveling entertainer who would sing and recite poetry, often to his own musical accompaniment.
  • n. One of a troupe of entertainers who wore black makeup (blackface) to present a variety show of song, dance and banjo music; now considered racist.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A musician, especially one who sings or recites to the accompaniment of instruments.
  • n. Hence Any poet or musician. [Poetical.]3, Originally, one of a class of singers of negro melodies and delineators of life on the Southern plantations which originated in the United States about 1830: called negro minstrels, although they are usually white men whose faces and hands are blackened with burnt cork.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a singer of folk songs
  • v. celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels
  • n. a performer in a minstrel show
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    sing   
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    vaudeville   
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    bard    musician    entertainer    gleeman    jongleur    folk singer    troubadour   
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    musician    bard    magician    juggler    dancer    beggar    sculptor    shepherd    Gypsy    novelist