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
He has been mad through the mountains of Cabaret with Peire Vidal, maddest jongleur of the old time.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once, at least, has this jongleur been more than little or impudent.
From Time Magazine Archive
"But it can also be performed by a charlatan! A trickster! I bet that jongleur sleeping out in the barn could dazzle our eyes if we let him."
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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
Presently they start into dances, and their steps accompany the words, still more like the custom of the jongleurs.
From Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Louisa Stuart Costello
The German minnesingers differed from the French troubadours in that they themselves accompanied their songs on the viol, instead of employing jongleurs.
From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by W. J. (Winton James) Baltzell
Those who merely sang them, without being themselves poets, were called jongleurs.
From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson
