单词 | jongleur |
释义 | jongleurn. a. The Norman French term (technically used by modern writers) for an itinerant minstrel, who sang and composed ballads, told stories and otherwise entertained people: = juggler n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > minstrel gleemanc897 galegalea1250 minstrel?a1300 bard1449 sing-song1694 troubadour1728 musar1776 jongleur1782 minstreless1817 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > minstrelsy > [noun] > minstrel gleemanc897 galegalea1250 minstrel?a1300 bard1449 troubadour1728 jongleur1782 1782 W. Alexander Hist. Women (ed. 3) I. vii. 232 It was that of the Troubadours, or Poets, who composed sonnets in praise of their beauty, and of the Jongleurs who sung them at the courts and castles of the great. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi III. vii. viii. 84 A minstrel, or jongleur..with a small lute slung round him, was making his way..through the throng. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. iv. 502 The Jongleurs (the reciters of the merry and licentious fabliaux). b. = juggler n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > legerdemain, etc. > [noun] > juggler or conjurer jugglera1100 tregetour1340 hey-passa1593 prestigiator1595 baffler1606 feat-worker1617 hocus-pocus1624 hocus1647 chirosophist1652 fascinator1677 legerdemain1696 prestidigitator1712 conjurer1727 sleight-of-hand man1757 nimble-fingers1781 sleight-of-hand professor1801 legerdemainist1830 magician1834 illusionist1850 jongleura1851 wizard1859 deceptionist1883 mentalist1906 a1851 D. M. Moir Dark Waggon xv, in Poet. Wks. (1852) On stage his sleights the jongleur shows. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1782 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。