jongleur
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As a modern troubadour, mining the social perspective of the chansons réalistes, Aznavour was the inheritor of a French tradition that can be traced back to the entertainment of the medieval jongleur.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 23, 2018
The other difference is that Tagore wasn’t a jongleur, that is, a singer of his own songs, though he might well have wanted such a career among his several.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2016
Once, at least, has this jongleur been more than little or impudent.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Perhaps "greatest living jongleur" would define him better, since he relies so upon borrowed accents, fantastic metres, the dress of other days.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But you know, being a jongleur, you gotta know people.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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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
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It clung to the tradition of mountebanks and mimes, acrobats and jongleurs, circus-clowns and rope-dancers.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi
Nothing was to be seen but jongleurs, farceurs, and other actors and buffoons, extravagance, debauchery, and constant change.
From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton
It reminds one somewhat of the Homeric rhapsodists, or the medieval jongleurs.
From Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod by P?ter Vay