Usually means: Traveling musicians performing songs, stories.
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  1. minstrels: Merriam-Webster
  2. minstrels: Collins English Dictionary
  3. minstrels: Vocabulary.com
  4. Minstrel's, Minstrels, minstrel's, minstrels: Wordnik
  5. minstrels: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. minstrels: Wiktionary
  7. minstrels: Dictionary.com
  8. Minstrels (chocolate), Minstrels: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Minstrels: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Minstrels: Encyclopedia

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  1. minstrels: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (minstrel)

noun:  (historical) Originally, an entertainer employed to juggle, play music, sing, tell stories, etc.; a buffoon, a fool, a jester; later, a medieval (especially travelling) entertainer who would recite and sing poetry, often to their own musical accompaniment.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  (chiefly poetic) Any lyric poet, musician, or singer.
noun:  (US, historical) One of a troupe of entertainers, often a white person who wore black makeup (blackface), to present a so-called minstrel show, being a variety show of banjo music, dance, and song (now sometimes regarded as racist).
noun:  (by extension, slang) An amphetamine tablet, typically black, or black and white, in colour.
verb:  (transitive) To play (a tune on a musical instrument); to sing (a song).
verb:  (intransitive) To act as a minstrel; to entertain by playing a musical instrument, singing, etc.
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