How To Use Jongleur In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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A jongleur was a singer who was not a poet, though he might make songs.
Masters of the Guild
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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“Et nous jongleurs inutiles, frivoles joueurs de luth!” ...
The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays
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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
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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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She has listened well to the tales the minstrels and jongleurs tell in private company, to the boasting of troubadours and the knights of the castle, and I care not to speculate on how this has come to pass.
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Francofolies, he is called, this special time when minstrels and jongleurs assemble to share their dreams and secrets in the tongue of Moliere.
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The jongleurs' display of the naked body and reliance on shameful movements further led both monastic writers and canonists to associate them with prostitution and lust.
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You may be certain of it, the jongleur is your man. '
The Sanctuary Sparrow
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In the second allegory, he figures the artist as pilgrim, jongleur or monk; as an ageing questor meditating on his paint-brush, or as a scholar discoursing on the enigmas of reality.
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Song: Sugar Man West African jongleur Gabin Dabiré is from Burkina Faso, which is bounded by the Sahara Desert and coastal rain forest.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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Every voice in the town declared confidently that the jongleur was the guilty man, and had successfully hidden his plunder before he was sighted and pursued.
The Sanctuary Sparrow
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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
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First references to secular music indicate little more than clerical disapproval, but the Pemyslid court of the 11th to early 14th centuries encouraged the performances of the jongleurs and later Minnesinger.
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The Jongleurs must have continued long after their masters were stamped out, for their direct successors are with us to-day, and our hand-organ is the descendant of their fearful and wonderful organistrum.
Woman's Work in Music
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Just how important minstrels and jongleurs were once can be seen by studying the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
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But how is this to be done, and which of my little court dare attempt this tour de jongleur with any chance of success?
The Abbot