minstrel 的定义
- 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.
- a musician, singer, or poet.
- one of a troupe of comedians, usually white men in blackface, presenting songs, jokes, etc., and portraying negative racial stereotypes.
minstrel 近义词
ballad singer
entertainer
更多minstrel例句
- What kind of minstrel show he gave to win his freedom is not known.
- I started with a minstrel show, making eight bucks a night, three nights a week.
- The idea that Cyrus staged what amounts to a minstrel show Sunday night is an interesting, though debatable, one.
- In a tradition that goes back to the days of the minstrel show, the banjo player doubled as a comedian.
- They perceived it as symbolic sexual service in the minstrel lane.
- At one end, and acting as interlocutor for this impromptu minstrel show, - 50 -presides one of the best fellows in the world.
- They could revel in the rugged measures of ‘Marmion,’ in the whirl and clatter of the ‘Last Minstrel.’
- The Lay of the Last Minstrel was his first original piece of any length and his first great popular success.
- Now, while the minstrel sang and touched his instrument, a fair youth stood up from the rosy sea of peonies by the pond.
- All festal occasions in Circassian life are enlivened by the presence of the minstrel.