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Jongleur

Jongleur Meaning & Definition
Jongleur Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Jongleur?

[n] a singer of folk songs

Synonyms | Synonyms for Jongleur: folk singer | minstrel | poet-singer | troubadour

Related Terms | Find terms related to Jongleur: arch-poet | ballad maker | ballad singer | balladeer | balladmonger | bard | beat poet | bucoliast | elegist | epic poet | fili | folk singer | folk-rock singer | gleeman | idyllist | imagist | laureate | librettist | major poet | maker | Meistersinger | minnesinger | minor poet | minstrel | modernist | occasional poet | odist | Parnassian | pastoral poet | pastoralist | poet | poet laureate | poetress | rhapsode | rhapsodist | satirist | scop | serenader | skald | sonneteer | street singer | strolling minstrel | symbolist | troubadour | trouveur | trovatore | vers libriste | vers-librist | wait | wandering minstrel

See Also | Guthrie | Pete Seeger | Peter Seeger | Seeger | singer | vocaliser | vocalist | vocalizer | Woodrow Wilson Guthrie | Woody Guthrie

Jongleur In Webster's Dictionary

\Jon"gleur\, Jongler \Jon"gler\, n. [F. jongleur. See {Juggler}.] 1. In the Middle Ages, a court attendant or other person who, for hire, recited or sang verses, usually of his own composition. See {Troubadour}. Vivacity and picturesquenees of the jongleur's verse. --J R. Green. 2. A juggler; a conjuror. See {Juggler}. --Milton.

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