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(historical) The practice or performance of a jongleur ("an itinerant entertainer in medieval England and France")..
The shows at Tourney, or Saints' Day, were made to charm the eye and ear; and the minstrel found it necessary to unit mimicry and jonglery with his rhymes, to command attention.
'It will not be for the worst then,' quoth I. 'So now go wake up thy lion, and lead him away to his den: and we will presently send him this carrion for a reward of his jonglery.'
"Why, Little Father! You are urging these good Christians to practise jonglery — like Nomgantz!" The priest laughed, too.
Norman replies, "Lord father, by godfather and godmother, who answered for me in baptism to the clergyman, named me Perron; afterward people called me by the surname Norman, and I was born in Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, and as a poor minstrel I support myself from jonglery."
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Jonglery means (historical) The practice or performance of a jongleur ("an itinerant entertainer in medieval England and France")..
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The shows at Tourney, or Saints' Day, were made to charm the eye and ear; and the minstrel found it necessary to unit mimicry and jonglery with his rhymes, to command attention.
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