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Definition of Minstrelsies
1. minstrelsy [n] - See also: minstrelsy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Minstrelsies
Literary usage of Minstrelsies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Oldde Folkes Tune Book: Containing a Choice Collection of Songs and Choruses by Caroline Richings Bernard (1873)
"... W» . guise, And to our fair - - ry king and queen, We JH^ffT^^ 1l . •T?
-' chant, m we . chant our moon - light minstrelsies, And chant, ..."
2. Greece, Ancient and Modern: Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell Institute by Cornelius Conway Felton (1896)
"... and in the sudden splendor to which they rose in that heaven-favored climate,
those national minstrelsies served to delight the listening multitudes, ..."
3. A Dissertation on Romance and Minstrelsy by Joseph Ritson, Chrétien (1891)
"harpers, made their minstrelsies; and after supper in the great bowed chamber of
the lord prior, sang the same gest; in which chamber was suspended, ..."
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