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jongleur
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun jongleur has 1 sense
- jongleur(n = noun.person) folk singer, minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour - a singer of folk songs; Array is a kind of singer, vocaliser, vocalist, vocalizer
has particulars: guthrie, woodrow wilson guthrie, woody guthrie, pete seeger, peter seeger, seeger
CIDE DICTIONARY
jongleur, n. [F. jongleur. See Juggler.].
- In the Middle Ages, a court attendant or other person who, for hire, recited or sang verses, usually of his own composition. See Troubadour. [1913 Webster]"Vivacity and picturesquenees of the jongleur's verse." [1913 Webster]
- A juggler; a conjuror. See Juggler. Milton.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
jongleur, n. hist. an itinerant minstrel.
Etymology
F, var. of jougleur JUGGLER
THESAURUS
jongleur
Meistersinger, Parnassian, 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, minnesinger, minor poet, minstrel, modernist, occasional poet, odist, 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
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