Min"strel*sy (?), n.
1.
The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel.
2.
Musical instruments.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
3.
A collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs.
Chaucer.
"The minstrelsy of heaven." Milton.
© Webster 1913.