Brewer's: Tregetour

A conjurer or juggler. (From Old French, tresgiat = a juggling trick.) The performance of a conjurer was anciently termed his “minstrelsy;” thus we read of Janio the juggler - “Janio le tregettor, facienti ministralsiam suam coram rege ... 20s.” (Lib. Compul. Garderoboe, an. (4 Edw. II. fol. 86), MS. Cott. Nero chap. viii.)

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