JONGLEUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jongleur mean? 

• JONGLEUR (noun)
  The noun JONGLEUR has 1 sense:

1. a singer of folk songs

  Familiarity information: JONGLEUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JONGLEUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A singer of folk songs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

folk singer; jongleur; minstrel; poet-singer; troubadour

Hypernyms ("jongleur" is a kind of...):

singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)

Instance hyponyms:

Guthrie; Woodrow Wilson Guthrie; Woody Guthrie (United States folk singer and songwriter (1912-1967))

Pete Seeger; Peter Seeger; Seeger (United States folk singer who was largely responsible for the interest in folk music in the 1960s (born in 1919))

 Context examples 

To all these suggestions the jongleur made no response, but sat with his eye fixed abstractedly upon the ceiling, as one who calls words to his mind.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The jongleur had put down his harp in high dudgeon.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You came in as the knight does in the jongleur's romances, between dragon and damsel, with small time for the asking of questions.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The tooth-drawer and the gleeman called for a cup of small ale apiece, and started off together for Ringwood fair, the old jongleur looking very yellow in the eye and swollen in the face after his overnight potations.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By St. Paul, there are men so caitiff that they think more of a scrivener's pen than of their lady's smile, and do their devoir in hopes that they may fill a line in a chronicle or make a tag to a jongleur's romance.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the time he was lost in admiration at the deft way in which the jongleur disguised the loss of his two missing strings, and the lusty, hearty fashion in which he trolled out his little ballad of the outland bowmen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)