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Meanings of jongleur in English
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 "jongleurs"
Examples for "jongleurs"
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.
Usage of jongleur in English
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.
6
You ask me to amuse you; I thought you might enjoy my jongleur's lullaby.
7
The jongleur had put down his harp in high dudgeon.
8
Silent he stood before her, still as an effigy, while meltingly the jongleur sang.
9
The distinction between trouvere or troubadour and jongleur is not always to be sharply drawn.
10
A jongleur was a singer who was not a poet, though he might make songs.
11
The traveling minstrel was in France a jongleur (Provencal jogleur).
12
Leave Valmy with Commines, but separate on the road and go to Amboise as a wandering jongleur.
13
I am, so to speak, a jongleur.
14
And is not all this what every dissour and jongleur tells us of in his stories of Merlin?
15
Silent he stood before her for an obvious interval, still as an effigy, while meltingly the jongleur sang.
16
As among the Scotch Highlanders, the Australians and the Zulus, the Red Indian jongleur is visited by the spirits.
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Portuguese
Jongleur through the time