jongleur

plural jongleurs · alternative jongler

1. An itinerant entertainer in medieval England and France; roles included song, music, acrobatics etc.; a troubadour.

   vivacity and picturesqueness of the jongleur's verse

   1874, John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People

   1 more example

   Orlando Boop insisted on crowding in higher up between a franklin and a jongleur[.]

   1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 81

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