minstrel / ˈmɪn strəl /

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minstrel 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a medieval poet and musician who sang or recited while accompanying himself on a stringed instrument, either as a member of a noble household or as an itinerant troubadour.
  2. a musician, singer, or poet.
  3. one of a troupe of comedians, usually white men in blackface, presenting songs, jokes, etc., and portraying negative racial stereotypes.

minstrel 近义词

n. 名词 noun

ballad singer

n. 名词 noun

entertainer

更多minstrel例句

  1. What kind of minstrel show he gave to win his freedom is not known.
  2. I started with a minstrel show, making eight bucks a night, three nights a week.
  3. The idea that Cyrus staged what amounts to a minstrel show Sunday night is an interesting, though debatable, one.
  4. In a tradition that goes back to the days of the minstrel show, the banjo player doubled as a comedian.
  5. They perceived it as symbolic sexual service in the minstrel lane.
  6. At one end, and acting as interlocutor for this impromptu minstrel show, - 50 -presides one of the best fellows in the world.
  7. They could revel in the rugged measures of ‘Marmion,’ in the whirl and clatter of the ‘Last Minstrel.’
  8. The Lay of the Last Minstrel was his first original piece of any length and his first great popular success.
  9. Now, while the minstrel sang and touched his instrument, a fair youth stood up from the rosy sea of peonies by the pond.
  10. All festal occasions in Circassian life are enlivened by the presence of the minstrel.