jongleur

Example Sentences

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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

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

"But it can also be performed by a charlatan! A trickster! I bet that jongleur sleeping out in the barn could dazzle our eyes if we let him."

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz