Crossword-Solution: GOLIARD
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Goliard | n. | A buffoon in the Middle Ages, who attended rich men's tables to make sport for the guests by ribald stories and songs. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GOLIARD | anagram | ARIGOLD, GOLDIRA |
We have 20 clues for the answer “GOLIARD”
| Clue | Answers |
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| one of a number of wandering scholars | 1 answer |
| WANDERING student | 1 answer |
| JESTER roving student | 1 answer |
| Wandering minstrel. | 5 answers |
| menestrier | 14 answers |
| rimer | 15 answers |
| cerddorion | 15 answers |
| Skald | 15 answers |
| bhat | 15 answers |
| medieval singer | 16 answers |
| jongleur | 17 answers |
| Troubadour | 18 answers |
| minstrel | 21 answers |
| harper | 30 answers |
| Bard | 38 answers |
| Scald | 42 answers |
| Poet | 48 answers |
| Jester | 53 answers |
| musician | 55 answers |
| Singer | 60 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GOLIARD (5)
GOLIARD, a name applied to those wandering students (_vagantes_) and clerks in England, France and Germany, during the 12th and 13th centuries, who were better known for their rioting, gambling and intemperance than for their scholarship.
Giesebrecht and others, however, support the derivation of goliard from _gailliard_, a gay fellow, leaving "Golias" as the imaginary "patron" of their fraternity.
Those historians who regard the middle ages as completely dominated by ascetic ideals, regard the goliard movement as a protest against the spirit of the time.
The goliard poems are as truly "medieval" as the monastic life which they despised; they merely voice another section of humanity.
The word "goliard" itself outlived these turbulent bands which had given it birth, and passed over into French and English literature of the 14th century in the general meaning of jongleur or minstrel, quite apart from any clerical association.