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jonglerie
[< Cdn F < F jonglerie sorcery; trickery]
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n.
among Indians, a small, hut-like structure used by a medicine man (def. 1a) to demonstrate his magical powers by freeing himself from bonds and conversing with spirits.
Quotations
1859
In the evening our Indians constructed a jonglerie, or medicine lodge, the main object of which was to procure a fair wind for the next day.
1955
. . . a Canadian once had the temerity to peep under the covering which enclosed the Jonglerie, but that he got such a fright that he never fairly recovered from it.