[troo-buh-dawr, -dohr, -doo
r] 
| 1. | one of a class of medieval lyric poets who flourished principally in southern France from the 11th to 13th centuries, and wrote songs and poems of a complex metrical form in langue d'oc, chiefly on themes of courtly love. Compare trouvère. |
| 2. | any wandering singer or minstrel. |
| trou·ba·dour (trōō'bə-dôr', -dōr', -dŏŏr') n.
[French, from Provençal trobador, from Old Provençal, from trobar, to compose, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *tropāre, from Late Latin tropus, trope, song, from Latin, trope; see trope.] |