Mar. 2nd, 2011

tregetour

Mar. 2nd, 2011 07:09 am
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tregetour (TRE-geh-toor) - n., a street juggler or magician.


Formerly, a conjurer or juggler in any context, but sadly those professions have slid down the social scale from the manor house to busking. An old one (used by Chaucer), borrowed from Old French tregetor, from tregeter, throw around, ultimately from Latin trans- + jactare, to throw -- so originally more the juggler than magician side of things.

---L.

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