Minstrel
Type of entertainer in medieval Europe / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Minstrel (disambiguation).
"Jongleur" redirects here. For the chain of UK comedy clubs, see Jongleurs (comedy club).
A minstrel was an entertainer, initially in medieval Europe. The term originally described any type of entertainer such as a musician, juggler, acrobat, singer or fool; later, from the sixteenth century, it came to mean a specialist entertainer who sang songs and played musical instruments.[1][2]
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