noun. A medieval entertainer who traveled from place to place, especially to sing and recite poetry.

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noun. A lyric poet.

noun. A musician.

noun. A performer in a minstrel show.

noun. A musician, especially one who sings or recites to the accompaniment of instruments.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. A medieval traveling entertainer who would sing and recite poetry, often to his own musical accompaniment.

noun. 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.

noun. a singer of folk songs

verb. celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels

noun. a performer in a minstrel show

"Susan Stroman says "The Scottsboro Boys" makes use of the kind of broad stylized characters typical in minstrel shows."

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