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
Once, at least, has this jongleur been more than little or impudent.
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
And it is also a fact that in the fabliaux and other light verse of the time we find jongleurs presented as boasting of the particular chansons they can sing.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
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 troubadours and jongleurs traveled from court to court, not only in France, but north into Germany and south into Italy, carrying with them the southern French poetry and customs.
From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson
