Meanings of wander minstrels in English

These were gradually fused into long epic poems by the wandering minstrels.

Now, there are wandering minstrels yet in the Cumberland Hills.

But never were they wandering minstrels.

His story was told everywhere by the wandering minstrels, and his name became the center of all popular romances.

Wandering minstrels sang about him.

Under this appellation were included professional mendicants, wandering minstrels, actors, certain classes of prostitutes, and persons outlawed by society.

He is one of those wandering minstrels and happy improvisers whom the favor of princes had turned into poetizing beggars.

He was fond of old ballads, and encouraged the wandering minstrels, who entertained the king with topical songs till a late hour.

Innkeepers were not prone to lavish welcomes on wandering minstrels who carried all their world's gear on their back like any snail.

Are not the taxes of these Jem Baggses, these wandering minstrels, the "only rates uninvidious in the levy, ungrudged in the assessment?"

The courtyard where we learned to manage a steed and use our weapons, the hall where we listened to the wandering minstrels, in ruins!

Some wandering minstrels shoot their gondola into the mouth of the canal, and strike up a gay waltz, while they watch the shaded balconies above.