jongleur

Example Sentences

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While challenging the truism that troubadour song was invented by noblemen, he gives short shrift to the wandering jongleurs who sang in medieval taverns and hostelries.

From Los Angeles Times

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

"I'm no cheap jongleur, either, you know. I sing for lords and ladies! One day I'll sing for the king himself!"

From Literature

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

And the said jongleurs came from the household of the bishop,” ib.

From Project Gutenberg