Jongleur
A jongleur was a medieval French performer who traveled from place to place entertaining audiences with songs, poems, stories, juggling, acrobatics, and comic acts. In literary history, the term is often linked to the performers who helped spread the works of troubadours and trouvères, sometimes by singing or reciting those poems aloud.
Example
In the market square, the jongleur sang a courtly lyric, then tossed three bright apples into the air as the crowd laughed and listened.
Related Definitions
[n] a singer of folk songs
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