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
He has been mad through the mountains of Cabaret with Peire Vidal, maddest jongleur of the old time.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I'm no cheap jongleur, either, you know. I sing for lords and ladies! One day I'll sing for the king himself!"
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
The troubadour was a very different person, generally a noble who wrote poems, set them to music, and employed jongleurs to sing and play them.
From Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by W. J. (Winton James) Baltzell
Preachers vie with jongleurs in illustrating their sermons by stories, “examples” they call them.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
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
