jongleur

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: jon=gleur

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