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troubadour
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trou·ba·dour  (trb-dôr, -dr, -dr)
n.
1. One of a class of 12th-century and 13th-century lyric poets in Southern France, northern Italy, and northern Spain, who composed songs in langue d'oc often about courtly love.
2. A strolling minstrel.

[French, from Provençal trobador, from Old Provençal, from trobar, to compose, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *tropre, from Late Latin tropus, trope, song, from Latin, trope; see trope.]

troubadour [ˈtruːbəˌdʊə]
n
1. (Historical Terms) 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. (Music, other) a singer
[from French, from Old Provençal trobador, from trobar to write verses, perhaps ultimately from Latin tropus trope]
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Noun1.troubadour - a singer of folk songstroubadour - a singer of folk songs              
singer, vocalist, vocalizer, vocaliser - a person who sings

troubadour
noun minstrel, singer, poet, balladeer, lyric poet, jongleur melodies like a medieval troubadour's laments
Translations
troubadour [ˈtruːbədɔːʳ] Ntrovador m
troubadour
nTroubadour m


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