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What (who) is jongleur - definition

MEDIEVAL PROFESSION; TYPE OF MUSICIAN, SINGER IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
Jongleur; Minstrels; Joglaresse; Joglar; Joglares
  • The Minstrels of Beverley. Woodcut of 16th-century English musicians. Left to right: pipe and tabor, fiddle, windcap instrument, lute, and shawm.

Jongleur         
·noun ·Alt. of Jongler.
jongleur         
[d??jongleur'gl?:]
¦ noun historical an itinerant minstrel.
Origin
Fr., var. of jougleur 'juggler', earlier jogleor 'pleasant, smiling', from L. joculator 'joker'.
minstrel         
n.
Musician, singer, bard.

Wikipedia

Minstrel

A minstrel was an entertainer, initially in medieval Europe. It originally described any type of entertainer such as a musician, juggler, acrobat, singer or fool; later, from the sixteenth century, it came to mean a specialist entertainer who sang songs and played musical instruments.