jongleur

• jongler

Borrowed from French jongleur. Doublet of juggler.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɑŋ.ɡlɚ/, /ʒɔ̃ˈɡlɝ/

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jongleur (plural jongleurs)

1. An itinerant entertainer in medieval England and France; roles included song, music, acrobatics etc.; a troubadour.
   • 1874, John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People:

     vivacity and picturesqueness of the jongleur's verse

2. A juggler; a conjurer.
3. A mountebank.

Borrowed from Middle French jongleur.

• IPA^(key): /jɔŋˈløːr/

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• Hyphenation: jong‧leur
• Rhymes: -øːr

jongleur m (plural jongleurs)

1. a juggler

• jongleuren

• jongleren

From Old French jangleor (and various other spellings) from jongler (“to entertain”).

• IPA^(key): /ʒɔ̃.ɡlœʁ/

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jongleur m (plural jongleurs, feminine jongleuse)

1. (dated) an entertainer
2. a juggler
3. (Louisiana) a daydreamer

• “jongleur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

jongleur m (plural jongleuri)

1. obsolete form of jongler

• jongleur in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN