jongleur
[jong-gler; French zhawn-glœr]
- (in medieval France and Norman England) an itinerant minstrel or entertainer who sang songs, often of his own composition, and told stories.
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Compare goliard.
Origin of jongleur
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Related Words for jongleur
minstrel, songwriter, crooner, troubadour, artist, musician, bard, poet, songster, jongleur, balladeer, accompanist, vocalist, singer, show, player, performance, harper, minnesinger, serenaderExamples from the Web for jongleur
Historical Examples of jongleur
And is not all this what every dissour and jongleur tells us of in his stories of Merlin?
The Last Of The Barons, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
Their name, "jongleur," like "charity," covers a multitude of sins.
Life on a Mediaeval BaronyWilliam Stearns Davis
Far, far away in some distant steading, the jongleur heard the crowing of a cock.
The SerfGuy Thorne
The troubadour, minstrel and jongleur or joglar, were not the same in dignity.
Masters of the GuildL. Lamprey
A jongleur was a singer who was not a poet, though he might make songs.
Masters of the GuildL. Lamprey
jongleur
- (in medieval France) an itinerant minstrel
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Word Origin for jongleur
C18: from Old French jogleour, from Latin joculātor joker, jester; see juggle
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Word Origin and History for jongleur
"wandering minstrel," 1779, from Norman-French jongleur, variant of Old French jogleor, from Latin ioculator "jester, joker" (see juggler). Revived in a technical sense by modern writers.
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