Trúð

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

es;

trúð

m. A player on a trumpet, an actor, buffoon :-- Trúð liticen, Ælfc. Gr. 9, 12; Zup. 40, 7: Wrt. Voc. i. 73, 66 (the word occurs in a list of terms connected with amusements). Com sum trúð tó ðæs bisceopes híréde, se ne gýmde nánes lenctenes fæstenes, ac eode him tó kicenan, Homl. Skt. i. 12, 59. Trúþas histriones, gligmon mimus, jocista, scurra, pantomimus, tumbere saltator. Wrt. Voc. i. 39, 41-44. As an illustration of the character of the trúð see Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, Bk. iii. c. 3, § § 4, 7, where one picture is given of dancers accompanied by trumpeters, and another of a dancing bear attended by a trumpeter. [Icel. trúðr a juggler.]

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