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minstrel (oh)



[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: menestrel 'servant, minstrel', from Latin minister; MINISTER1]
a singer or musician in the Middle Ages
one of a group of white singers and dancers who pretended to be black while performing in popular shows in the 1920s