Medieval profession; wandering entertainer of medieval Europe who for hire practiced the arts of minstrelsy, narration, dancing, juggling, and mime.
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Examples for "jongleur "
Examples for "jongleur "
1 The request of a jongleur to lead the Duke's battle seems incredible.
2 The troubadour, minstrel and jongleur or joglar, were not the same in dignity.
3 Baldulph devised to seek the besiegers' camp in the guise of a jongleur .
4 The jongleur was not noble by birth, but was ennobled by his bravery.
5 If this jongleur had lied, Bracciolini meant to kill him for his insolence.
1 None knew, though poets and jongleurs speculated in endless romantic ballads and epics.
2 We might play that we were jongleurs , and that it was still mediaeval times.
3 Minstrels and jongleurs draw custom and so claim to pay no score, except for liquor.
4 With music, and stories, jongleurs and troubadours-She laughed, exultant, as if it were already happening.
5 We will go as jongleurs , then.
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Translations for joculator