Noun : a collection of Scottish minstrelsy. From Dictionary.com.
Who has been waiting to use the word minstrelsy?. From Wordnik.com. [Regretsy – Spongebob Jewpants] Reference
Further, Weigel's invocation of "minstrelsy" rankles. From Wordnik.com. [The M Word] Reference
Richard, who loved "rich meats," and cared little at this time for their usual accompaniment, "minstrelsy,". From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 392, October 3, 1829] Reference
Our praise would be unmeaning minstrelsy, our prayers. From Wordnik.com. [The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866] Reference
Alfred in farming that he had attained in minstrelsy. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Each was accompanied by its rude music and minstrelsy. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
With all their echoing mounts athrob with war's wild minstrelsy. From Wordnik.com. [How the Flag Became Old Glory] Reference
In Italy minstrelsy received but little attention or encouragement. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
The indefatigable collector of the elder national minstrelsy, Peter. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Some of his lyrics are not unworthy of a place in the national minstrelsy. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
But I think probably it just comes from the tradition of minstrelsy, really. From Wordnik.com. [Old Crow Medicine Show Revives Traveling Tradition] Reference
His lyrics are few, but these merit a place in the minstrelsy of his country. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
At this did Doom sit mighty pleased and humming to himself a bar of minstrelsy. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
The native minstrelsy was fostered and promoted by many of his royal successors. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
He has caught their colouring as truly as Burns did that of the Scottish minstrelsy. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
"Lyric Gems of Scotland," a respectable collection of minstrelsy published in Glasgow. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
The weird Highland minstrelsy seemed quite in keeping with the place and solemn scene. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
Mr Buchan was justly esteemed as a zealous and industrious collector of the elder Scottish minstrelsy. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
After the Pittsburgh engagement it was carefully laid away and thus Alfred was preserved to minstrelsy. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Nairn, proved a noble coadjutor and successor to the rustic bard in renovating the national minstrelsy. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
A specimen of his Gaelic minstrelsy will be found among the translations at the end of the present volume. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Scotland has probably produced a more patriotic and more extended minstrelsy than any other country in the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
Mr. MARTINS: No. I mean, that's absolutely the attraction in which, in one sense, it's almost minstrelsy, basically. From Wordnik.com. [Can It Be Too Soon to Cover a Pop Song?] Reference
He purified the elder minstrelsy, and by a few gentle, but effective touches, completely renovated its fading aspects. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
That the Spanish were influenced by their Moorish conquerors with regard to music, minstrelsy, and dancing is certain. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
A respectable contributor to the Caledonian minstrelsy, Robert Gilfillan was born in Dunfermline on the 7th July 1798. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Peebles, though more the enthusiastic lover of, than a contributor to, the national minstrelsy, is entitled to remembrance. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Thus encouraged, the native minstrelsy was fostered by the whole community, receiving accessions from succeeding generations. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
As a poet and song-writer he claims a place in the national minstrelsy, which the irregular habits of his life will not forfeit. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Still let me sing thy praises, gracious Love, though I am entering on the days of fogeydom, and my minstrelsy is something rusty. From Wordnik.com. [Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
"It is to few -- to none indeed save you that I have confided the secret of my minstrelsy," he said deferentially a little later. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
Those who have wrong ideas of the life to come seem to imagine that the Heavenly existence consists in minstrelsy and nothing else. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference
Alfred, sitting on the horse's back, leaned far over toward the man and detailed the sad results of his first venture in minstrelsy. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
Cromek urged him to collect the elder minstrelsy of Nithsdale and Galloway as an exercise more profitable than the composition of verses. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
I have, moreover, been the first to introduce and naturalize amongst us a measure which, though common enough in the Argotic minstrelsy of. From Wordnik.com. [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference
Possessed of strong poetical genius, Robert Nicoll has attained a conspicuous and honoured niche in the temple of the national minstrelsy. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
The love of Scottish minstrelsy first awakened his literary sense, and the stimulus supplied by ballads and romances never lost its force. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature] Reference
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