What is "minstrels"

Usage examples of "minstrels".

The puppeteers, minstrels, jugglers and other entertainers of the Six Duchies prospered.

I said, they permit only harmless, non-magical minstrels, even though no one over there knows how Bardic Magic really works.

As often as not, there would have been other gatherings at the other hearths throughout the hall: men fletching arrows, women embroidering and chatting, minstrels rehearsing songs or composing new ones.

Evergreen boughs and garlands trimmed the entrances and hearths, and the minstrels played softly as folk entered and sought their places.

The minstrels struck up suddenly at a signal from Chade as the serving-folk flooded into the hall.

Starling had taken him to an inn frequented by travelling minstrels and there introduced to a number of musical young ladies.

I warned him facetiously about the soft and easy ways of minstrels and their stony hearts.

Present for the celebration of a Leinsterish victory over Tara were nobles from Carman and elsewhere in the realm, and the poets and historians, minstrels and mages.

Like insisting that he associate himself not only with her but with minstrels and ersatz moat monsters.

The minstrels had long since given up trying to be heard and joined the crowds around the drink trays.

Elsewhere, all over the world, people living under similar conditions to the Southerners are exceedingly musical, and we owe the great majority of the sweetest compositions which delight the ear and subdue the senses to unlettered song-makers of the Swiss mountains, the Tyrolese valleys, the Bavarian Highlands, and the minstrels of Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

The minstrels played on as they would right up until the boarding began.