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minnesinger

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min·ne·sing·er  (mn-sngr, -zng-)
n.
One of the German lyric poets and singers in the troubadour tradition who flourished from the 12th to the 14th century.
[German, from Middle High German : minne, love (from Old High German minna; see men-1 in Indo-European roots) + singer, singer; see Meistersinger.]
minnesinger [ˈmɪnɪˌsɪŋə]
n
(Literature / Poetry) one of the German lyric poets and musicians of the 12th to 14th centuries
[from German: love-singer]


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The history of the Godfreys and the Minnesingers can evidently not cover the life of the peoples.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Take up the literature of 1835, and you will find the poets and novelists asking for the same impossible gift as did the German Minnesingers long before them and the old Norse Saga writers long before that.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
The old Bards and Minnesingers had advantages which we do not possess -- and Thomas Moore, singing his own songs, was, in the most legitimate manner, perfecting them as poems.
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