troubadour

[ troo-buh-dawr, -dohr, -door ]
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noun
  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.

Origin of troubadour

1
First recorded in 1720–30; from French, from Provençal trobador, equivalent to trob(ar) “to find, compose” (cf. trover) + -ador (from Latin -ātor -ator

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troubadour

/ (ˈtruːbəˌdʊə) /


noun
  1. any of a class of lyric poets who flourished principally in Provence and N Italy from the 11th to the 13th centuries, writing chiefly on courtly love in complex metric form

  2. a singer

Origin of troubadour

1
C18: from French, from Old Provençal trobador, from trobar to write verses, perhaps ultimately from Latin tropus trope

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