What is a jongleur?
Jongleur is a wandering minstrel, poet, or entertainer in medieval England and France. An itinerant minstrel or entertainer who sang and often composed songs, told stories, performed juggling acts, acrobatics, etc.
Synonyms for jongleur include: a folk-singer, a troubadour. The following sentence illustrates how jongleur can be used.
The group of jongleurs was so popular that King Edward requested a private performance.
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29 Comments
Chrissie
The illustrative sentence from the freedictionary isn't particularly helpful - you could substitute "prostitutes" for jongleurs and it would still make sense - maybe more sense! - but a quite different sense.
nadiegefroget
Or a juggler in modern French language
Annie
Good guess😁
Alain Vercammen-Grandjean
Could be a politician too especially in the French con-man entendre!!!
Char
I got it
Humberto Carrasco
GOT IT RIGHT
Martha McDowell
Great question! I learned something Thanks
Marcella Kosse
Guessed correctly.
docluci
Good guess. I thought of jugglers and came up with the correct answer.
ninakamwene
tesla alset, DITTO. Good job Tes.
larrywagner
Reminded me of an older song, The Hurdy Gurdy Man. Good comment Tesla Keep it up.
Phoebe Wiltshire
I used to go to a club named Jongleur. The entertainment was varied and icluded comedy and music.
Christopher J Voce
✔️Rang yet another distant bell.
Ilias Tsiabardas
Got it because I New this One
Lynne Cohen
Like the dog in the picture although none of the choices had anything to do with it.