Minnesinger \Min"ne*sing`er\, n. [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.
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