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jongleur

NOUN
  1. a singer of folk songs

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  • King, powerful in all the craft of Troubadours and Jongleurs, is held in peculiar esteem for conducting mysteries, and other of those gamesome and delightful sports and processions with which our holy Church permits her graver ceremonies to be relieved and diversified, to the cheering of the hearts of all true children of religion. Anne of Geierstein
  • Fo had developed the play - a series of episodes in the manner of Mystery Plays - over 15 to 20 years when researching the life of jongleurs, itinerant street entertainers.
  • A jongleur was a singer who was not a poet, though he might make songs. Masters of the Guild
  • Rojer, on the other hand, is an apprentice jongleur who struggles to make a living for himself and his fallen-from-grace drunken master. Peter V. Brett - The Painted Man / The Warded Man (Book Review)
  • West African jongleur Gabin Dabiré is from Burkina Faso, which is bounded by the Sahara Desert and coastal rain forest. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Sixty-Seven
  • What unites the two is the image of Francis as showman, as jongleur, he who turns things topsy-turvy and makes a hash of all conventions. RIDDLE ME THIS
  • o 'faddling fictions as -- gestes of jongleurs, tales told by tramping troubadours, ballades of babbling braggarts, romances of roysterous rhymers, she (good gossip!) as I say, having hearkened to and perused the works of such-like pelting, paltry prosers and poets wherein sweep of sword and lunge o' lance is accompted of worthier repute than the penning of dainty distich and pretty poesies pleasingly passionate. The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
  • “Et nous jongleurs inutiles, frivoles joueurs de luth!” ... The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays
  • I have played the jongleur and the harlequin so strongly that it seemed that I could do nothing more beyond what had already been achieved. Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri
  • This class of sorcerers were met with by the Jesuit Fathers early in the seventeenth century, and referred to under various designations, such as jongleur, magicien, consulteur du manitou, etc. The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300
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