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TROUBADOUR
Etymology
Noun
troubadour (plural troubadours)
An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.
Coordinate terms
• trobairitz
Source: Wiktionary
Trou"ba*dour`, n. Etym: [F. troubadour, fr. Pr. trobador, (assumed) LL. tropator a singer, tropare to sing, fr. tropus a kind of singing, a melody, song, L. tropus a trope, a song, Gr. Trope, and cf. Trouv.]
Definition: One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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