Definition of "jongleurs" []

• Plural form of jongleur. (noun)

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• "Taruskin knows that the troubadour songs were generally not performed by the nobles but by minstrels, called jongleurs, and affirms that most of the non-aristocratic troubadours started out as minstrels."
• "The 'jongleurs' and the learned dogs and the green monkeys have passed away, with the lieutenant-general of the king."
• "When all this had been duly gone through with, the 'jongleurs' of Chauny received the Royal permission to resume their perambulations of the realm for another year, and the day wound up with junketings and jollifications all over the town."