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
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pluralof jongleur.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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
They produced poets and jongleurs, but seldom artists or scholars.
From Illuminated Manuscripts by John William Bradley
The troubadour was a very different person, generally a noble who wrote poems, set them to music, and employed jongleurs to sing and play them.
From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by W. J. (Winton James) Baltzell
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 W. J. (William James) Henderson
