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Jongler   Listen
noun
Jongler, Jongleur  n.  
1.
In the Middle Ages, a court attendant or other person who, for hire, recited or sang verses, usually of his own composition. See Troubadour. "Vivacity and picturesquenees of the jongleur's verse."
2.
A juggler; a conjuror. See Juggler.






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"Jongler" Quotes from Famous Books



... will gambol about quite close to me as if I were but a tree; and, withal, the fiercest hound or mastiff is tame before me. Therefore I feared not this lion, and, moreover, I looked to it that if I might tame him thoroughly, he would both help me to live as a jongleur, and would be a sure ...
— The Well at the World's End • William Morris

... many familiar works. He announced the engagement of "the greatest sopranos, mezzo sopranos, contraltos, barytones, and bassos of the operatic world." The eight new operas were to be Massenet's "Thas," Debussy's "Pellas et Mlisande," Charpentier's "Louise," Breton's "Dolores," Massenet's "Jongleur de Notre Dame," Saint-Sans's "Hlne," Offenbach's "Les Contes d'Hoffmann," and "an opera by our American composer, Victor Herbert." Offenbach's charming opera had been heard in New York before, from a French company managed by Maurice ...
— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel

... corner nearest to the glamoured mansion of the Joneses, the boy jongleur came suddenly face to face with Marjorie, and, in the delicious surprise of the encounter, ceased to play, his hands, in agitation, falling ...
— Penrod • Booth Tarkington



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