jongleur
Americannoun
plural
jongleursnoun
Etymology
Origin of jongleur
1755–65; < French; Middle French jougleur (perhaps by misreading, ou being read on ), Old French jogleor < Latin joculātor joker, equivalent to joculā ( rī ) to joke + -tor -tor
Example Sentences
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While challenging the truism that troubadour song was invented by noblemen, he gives short shrift to the wandering jongleurs who sang in medieval taverns and hostelries.
From Los Angeles Times
As a modern troubadour, mining the social perspective of the chansons réalistes, Aznavour was the inheritor of a French tradition that can be traced back to the entertainment of the medieval jongleur.
From The New Yorker
The jongleur looks at me like I'm insane.
From Literature
The other difference is that Tagore wasn’t a jongleur, that is, a singer of his own songs, though he might well have wanted such a career among his several.
From The Guardian
But the merrymakers in nunneries were not necessarily strange jongleurs or secular folk.
From Project Gutenberg
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