Citations:joculatrix

English citations of joculatrix

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• 1839, G. Long, editor, The Penny Cyclopædia‎^[1], page 250:

  Joculator Regis is an officer holding no less than three vills in the return of the Domesday Survey for Gloucestershire; and in the same survey, in Surrey, we have a Joculatrix.

• 1858, John Doran, The History of Court Fools‎^[2], page 115:

  I might have included among my "Female Jesters" a nameless Joculatrix, or Ministralissa, who, if not attached to the household of Edward II., yet played her part before him for the amusement of himself and a noble company.

• 1869, Matthew Browne, Chaucer's England‎^[3], pages 275–276:

  In a modern pantomime we see the line of descent unbroken; and the Columbine and teh Harlequina may be supposed to represent the joculatrix and the dancer of the generations in which the English love of 'chaff' made every person of importance, who could afford it, avail himself of the services of professional jesters and mirth-makers.

• 1887, Walter de Gray Birch, Domesday Book: A Popular Account of the Exchequer Manuscript So Called‎^[4], page 163:

  Joculator, and the feminine form Joculatrix, a minstrel, jongleur, or an improviser of songs, one of the indispensable adjuncts of the Court. Hence the modern "juggler," which has acquired a somewhat different meaning.

• 1891, Joseph Ritson, A Dissertation on Romance and Minstrelsy‎^[5], page 96:

  Neither can this be fairly inferred from the female terminations of jengleresse (which is very suspicious), joculatrix, ministralissa, fæmina ministralis, etc., unless it were known in what sense the word was used, ...

• 1903, Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer, Royalty in All Ages‎^[6], page 329:

  A female jester amused the Court of Edward II., and when this monarch was keeping Whitsuntide at Westminster Hall, "this joculatrix rode into the hall on a closely clipped horse, and caracolled round about the tables, to the great amusement of the company."

• 1903, Frederic Stewart Isham, Under the Rose‎^[7]:

  He had heard that in far-away France the motley was not confined to men. Had not Jeanne, queen of Charles I, possessed her jestress, Artaude de Puy, "folle to our dear companion," as said the king? Had not Madame d'Or, wearer of the bells, kept the nobles laughing? Had not the haughty, eccentric Don John, his handsome, merry joculatrix, attached to his princely household?

• 1907, Edmondstoune Duncan, The Story of Minstrelsy‎^[8], page 78:

  In private many ladies could harp and sing, as is well seen from the numerous references made by Chaucer to their accomplishments in this direction. If others did not exist in a public capacity, it seems difficult to explain the existence of such words as the following, quoted by Du Cange:— Gligmeden (glee-maiden), Jengleresse, Joculatrix, Ministralissa, Femina Ministerialis, etc.

• 1909, James Branch Cabell, Chivalry‎^[9], page 176:

  For even as Riczi left her, yonder behind the yew-hedge a shrill joculatrix sang, in rehearsal for Jehane's bridal feast.

• 1914, Richard Dehan, The Cost of Wings and Other Stories‎^[10], Obsessed, page 158:

  Did a living counterpart of the sixteenth-century joculatrix exist in the nineteenth?

• 1937, Geoffrey Dennis, Coronation Commentary‎^[11], page 141:

  All other courts had male clowns; he perversely, uniquely, his female fool, his joculatrix.

• 2003, Carolyne Larrington, Women and Writing in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook‎^[12], →ISBN, page 217:

  Other artistic endeavours such as dance or musical performances are lost at the moment they are completed: how Adelina the 'joculatrix' mentioned in the Domesday Book came by her surname is now impossible to discover—the term may mean 'singer' or 'entertainer'.