Crossword clues for jongleur
jongleur
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jongleur \Jon"gleur\, Jongler \Jon"gler\, n. [F. jongleur. See Juggler.]
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In the Middle Ages, a court attendant or other person who, for hire, recited or sang verses, usually of his own composition. See Troubadour.
Vivacity and picturesquenees of the jongleur's verse.
--J R. Green. A juggler; a conjuror. See Juggler.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"wandering minstrel," 1779, from Norman-French jongleur, variant of Old French jogleor, from Latin ioculator "jester, joker" (see juggler). Revived in a technical sense by modern writers.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An itinerant entertainer in medieval England and France; roles included song, music, acrobatics etc.; a troubadour. 2 A juggler; a conjurer.
WordNet
n. a singer of folk songs [syn: folk singer, minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour]
Usage examples of "jongleur".
Jongleur, a hilly rural region where Hoh Vitt had grown up, dwelled a special type of storyteller.
She found out from a wandering confabulator, a Jongleur from the Warlock Benevolent Mischief School, about Orphic reincarnation banks: and she had never forgiven the mad risk her primitivist parents had taken with her life.
Beggars sat by church doors asking for alms, mendicant friars begged bread for their orders or for the poor in prison, jongleurs performed stunts and magic in the plazas and recited satiric tales and narrative ballads of adventure in Saracen lands.
The rutted roads, always either too dusty or too muddy, carried an endless flow of pilgrims and peddlers, merchants with their packtrains, bishops making visitations, tax-collectors and royal officials, friars and pardoners, wandering scholars, jongleurs and preachers, messengers and couriers who wove the network of communications from city to city.
Every night around the fire I had heard and relished more ludicrous accounts than mine, among the drolls and jongleurs of the Wanderers.
The black marketeer had bargained everything on a number of aggressive therapies, sacrificing any chance of long-term physical salvation, even of the macabre type that sustained Jongleur, to keep his multifold cancers out of his brain stem until he could undergo the Grail process.
I earned my passage recalling my days as a jongleur with the goliards, reciting tales fromLa Chanson de Roland and entertaining the crew at their meals with raucous jokes.
Some kind of electrical charge running through it-probably one of those hyperglass things, meant to keep anyone from firing a missile through it and blowing up Jongleur and this madhouse of his.
A vast, bushy plant with poisonous-looking white flowers near the center of the information model stood as testament to all that Sellars knew about Jongleur.
Certes a girl in a rough army is not as safe as that same girl among jongleurs and I’d not given myself much more than a week in such company.
Several of the jongleurs had assembled on one of their carts by the roadside to view the departure, and Dangereuse broke free to run after us.
But he remembered that Oraiel had no such decoration, and that the jongleurs were supposed to stay outside of tribal conflicts.
We will destroy their tribes one by one until the weasel clan will be only a memory for the jongleurs to sing about.
He dispatched a messenger to the Jongleurs, and they fell silent — a signal familiar to the guests.
Maybe we could bring in the Jongleurs, have them tell amusing stories.