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1. The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel. 2. Musical instruments. Chaucer. 3. A collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs. Chaucer. "The minstrelsy of heaven."

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1. The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel. 2. Musical instruments. Chaucer. 3. A collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs. Chaucer. "The minstrelsy of heaven." Milton.

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    A place for public musical entertainments; specif. , esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.
  • MINSTRELSY
    1. The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel. 2. Musical instruments. Chaucer. 3. A collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs. Chaucer. "The minstrelsy of heaven."
  • MUSICALLY
    In a musical manner.
  • MUSICAL
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  • MUSIC DRAMA
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  • MUSICALE
    A social musical party.
  • MUSICOMANIA
    A kind of monomania in which the passion for music becomes so strong as to derange the intellectual faculties. Dunglison.
  • MUSICALNESS
    The quality of being musical.
  • MELODY
    A rhythmical succession of single tones, ranging for the most part within a given key, and so related together as to form a musical whole, having the unity of what is technically called a musical thought, at once pleasing to the ear and
  • MUSICIAN
    One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.
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  • PHILOMUSICAL
    Loving music. Busby.
  • IMMUSICAL
    Inharmonious; unmusical; discordant. Bacon.

 

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