Minstrelsyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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minstrelsy (countable and uncountable, plural minstrelsies)

1. The musical and other art and craft of a minstrel.
   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 86:

     Orfeo makes his way into this palace, and so charms the king with his minstrelsy, that he gives him back his wife.

   • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 186:

     They, of course, would change, but not again could she; henceforth no music for her in the Bush birds' minstrelsy, no pleasure in rivalry with buttercups for the butterflies' kiss.

2. A group of minstrels.
3. Any similar modern group performing song and verse.
4. A collection of minstrel ballads.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:minstrelsy.

参考

• minstrelry