jongleurs
- plural of jongleur.
Example Sentences
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Not lyric poets then, or even jongleurs, but bricoleurs, who occupy a separate category because they work across genres.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2016
Medieval France had its jongleurs; Elizabethan London, its ballad singers and costermongers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Various pictures show us that small instruments of the bowed varieties were used by the minnesingers, and again by jongleurs in the fifteenth century.
From Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by Henderson, W. J. (William James)
The minstrels confined themselves for the most part to music and poetry; while the jongleurs were the jugglers, tricksters, and exhibitors of trained animals.
From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh
Nothing was to be seen but jongleurs, farceurs, and other actors and buffoons, extravagance, debauchery, and constant change.
From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by Walton, William
