jongleur
noun
(in medieval France and Norman England) an itinerant minstrel or entertainer who sang songs, often of his own composition, and told stories.
jongleurs
-
pluralof jongleur.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
It clung to the tradition of mountebanks and mimes, acrobats and jongleurs, circus-clowns and rope-dancers.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
The men greeted the supposed purveyors of amusement with a shout; and one among them—a swarthy rascal with his head tied in a napkin—demanded that the jongleurs grace their meal with a song.
From Chivalry by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott
And the said jongleurs came from the household of the bishop,” ib.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
