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
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
He has been mad through the mountains of Cabaret with Peire Vidal, maddest jongleur of the old time.
From Time Magazine Archive
But you know, being a jongleur, you gotta know people.
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
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
The minstrels confined themselves for the most part to music and poetry; while the jongleurs were the jugglers, tricksters, and exhibitors of trained animals.
From Women of England by Bartlett Burleigh James
The men greeted the supposed purveyors of amusement with a shout; and one among them—a swarthy rascal with his head tied in a napkin—demanded that the jongleurs grace their meal with a song.
From Chivalry by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott
