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Webster 1913 Edition
Minnesinger
Min′ne-singˊer
,Noun.
[G., fr.
minne
love + singen
to sing.] A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their verses.