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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He has been mad through the mountains of Cabaret with Peire Vidal, maddest jongleur of the old time.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I order the jongleur a mug of the weak ale, the innkeeper brings it, and the boy goes on.
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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But the merrymakers in nunneries were not necessarily strange jongleurs or secular folk.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
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
During the hour after supper Barty, perched on a barrel in the court-yard, saw jongleurs and dancers, with bells on head and neck and heels, capering in the flare of the torches.
From In the Days of the Guild by Louise Lamprey