jongleur
- noun
- /ˈʒɒŋɡlər/
- Archaic
:
juglar
- Our Lady's Jongleur comes to mind.
Examples
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Fortuna clearly bears more than a passing resemblance to the ill-clad jongleur and even more so to the prostitute as we saw her described above.
Academic text (1996) -
The two prostitutes, as the primary producers of the text and as controllers of the action and plot, can in fact be considered the inscribed poets, or jongleurs, of the scene.
Academic text (1996) -
Like the jongleur and prostitute, the usurer turned community property to private gain, converted the sign to a commodity, and distorted value.
Academic text (1996) -
In shifting money from sign to commodity, he idolatrized the sign just as jongleurs and prostitutes idolatrized the body, clothing, and language.
Academic text (1996) -
Such an attitude towards poetry and jongleurs must be understood in the context of what Robert Sturges has called the "two competing semiologies of the Middle Ages."
Academic text (1996) -
Nor were writing and the production of literature per se to be condemned, because many clerics engaged in this activity, and even Thomas of Cobham allowed that some jongleurs, specifically those who performed hagiographic or epic works, were acceptable.
Academic text (1996) -
Not blind, my lord—I mean no clever jongleur's trick of words and meaning—but stone as hard and gray and smooth as a carved saint's hand.
Fiction book (2000) -
He was a thief, gaining excess profit without labor or any increase in value in any real-world commodity, and distorting "Nature" just as the jongleur and prostitute supposedly did.
Academic text (1996) -
Indeed, jongleurs and prostitutes were closely associated in the Middle Ages; for example, both were seen as sinful in that they distorted their bodies, which were in theory "naturally" given to them in the image of God, either through their actions (theatrical or sexual) or through adornment.
Academic text (1996) -
The jongleur captivated the audience with his lively songs and acrobatics.
Synonyms
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7.4
A person who entertains a king or queen with jokes and tricks
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9.6
A person in the Middle Ages who wrote and sang songs about love and knights
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3.0
A singer who performs traditional songs from a local culture
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9.6
A traveling singer who told stories and played music in medieval times
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9.9
A traveling singer in old England who sings songs and tells stories
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8.1
A performer who travels with a company to perform shows in different places
A person who writes and sings folk songs that tell stories
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jongleur comes from old French and Latin words meaning 'joke' or 'play', and it is like the English word joke and the word juggler. A jongleur was a traveling 'joker' who sang, told stories, and did tricks, which is why the word means a medieval entertainer today.