Sentence example with the word 'jongleur'

jongleur

arch-poet, balladmonger, elegist, folk-rock singer, laureate, minnesinger, occasional poet, poet, rhapsodist, skald, symbolist, vers libriste

Definition n. a singer of folk songs

Last update: October 29, 2015


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The poem was first written down by a wandering minstrel about 971 to 991, was remodelled about 1140 by Konrad,' who introduced interpolations in the spirit of chivalry and was perhaps responsible for the metre; during the wars and miseries of the next fifty years manners and taste became barbarized and the fine traditions of the old popular poetry were obscured, and it was under this influence that, about 1190, a jongleur (Spielmann) revised the poem, this recension being represented by group B.   [Please select]

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She said it with the humility of the Jongleur de Notre Dame in Anatole Frances's story.   [Please select]

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The musician ceased to be a wandering "jongleur" and became a highly valued member of the community.   [Please select]

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Turning the 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 from the instrument.   [Please select]

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