Noun
The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel.
Musical instruments.
A collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere was such idiot minstrelsy in rain, So many clappers going without bells, That these bethous compose a heavenly gong. One voice repeating, one tireless chorister, The phrases of a single phrase, ke-ke, A single text, granite monotony. Wallace Stevens
We have winning wiles and witcheries, Such incantations as thy sterner wit Did never dream of. Time hath been ere now That Jove hath listen'd to our minstrelsy. Till wrath would seem to drop out of his soul Like a forgotten thing. Hartley Coleridge
Founded in 1975, REED has for the last 31 years worked to locate, transcribe, and edit all surviving documentary evidence of drama, minstrelsy, and public ceremonial in England before 1642. Source: Internet
They included "self-same", "hue", "minstrelsy", "murky", "carol", and "chaunt". Source: Internet