Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A wandering minstrel, poet, or entertainer in medieval England and France.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medieval France, and in England under the Norman kings, a minstrel who went from place to place singing songs, generally of his own composition and to his own accompaniment; later, a mountebank.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun In the Middle Ages, a court attendant or other person who, for hire, recited or sang verses, usually of his own composition. See
Troubadour . - noun A juggler; a conjuror. See
Juggler .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
itinerant entertainer inmedieval England andFrance ; roles includedsong ,music ,acrobatics etc.; atroubadour . - noun A
juggler ; aconjurer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a singer of folk songs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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You may be certain of it, the jongleur is your man. '
The Sanctuary Sparrow Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1983
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Every voice in the town declared confidently that the jongleur was the guilty man, and had successfully hidden his plunder before he was sighted and pursued.
The Sanctuary Sparrow Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1983
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A jongleur was a singer who was not a poet, though he might make songs.
Masters of the Guild L. Lamprey 1910
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This class of sorcerers were met with by the Jesuit Fathers early in the seventeenth century, and referred to under various designations, such as jongleur, magicien, consulteur du manitou, etc.
The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 Walter James Hoffman 1872
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This class of sorcerers were met with by the Jesuit Fathers early in the seventeenth century, and referred to under various designations, such as jongleur, magicien, consulteur du manitou, etc.
Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868
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Rojer, on the other hand, is an apprentice jongleur who struggles to make a living for himself and his fallen-from-grace drunken master.
Peter V. Brett - The Painted Man / The Warded Man (Book Review) 2009
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Rojer, on the other hand, is an apprentice jongleur who struggles to make a living for himself and his fallen-from-grace drunken master.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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I have played the jongleur and the harlequin so strongly that it seemed that I could do nothing more beyond what had already been achieved.
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West African jongleur Gabin Dabiré is from Burkina Faso, which is bounded by the Sahara Desert and coastal rain forest.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Sixty-Seven 2009
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But how is this to be done, and which of my little court dare attempt this tour de jongleur with any chance of success?
The Abbot 2008
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