[a. OF. jug-, jougleresse, fem. of juglere: see prec. and -ESS.] A female juggler.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, II. cxxvi. (1869), 123. Ther is neither jogelour ne jogelouresse that maketh grettere solas there than j doo. Ibid., IV. xxxvi. 194. Jowgleresse.
1491. Caxton, Vitas Patr. (W. de W., 1495), I. xli. 62 b/1. He sawe … the moost excellent Iougleresse or Daunceresse that was in the cytee of Anthyoche.
1824. Price, in Warton’s Hist. Poetry, ii. (1840), I. 46, note. A jugleress, whose pantomimic exhibitions were accompanied by her husband’s harp.
