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sirvente

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sir·vente  (sîr-vät, sr-vnt) also sir·ven·tes (sr-vnts, -vnts)
n. pl. sir·ventes (-vät, -vnts) also sir·vent·es (-vnts)
A form of lyric verse of the Provençal troubadours satirizing political figures, personal rivals, or social morals.
[French, from Provençal sirventes, from Old Provençal, from sirvent, servant (the position of a lover towards his mistress), from Latin servins, servient-, present participle of servre, to serve, from servus, servant.]
sirvente [səˈvɛnt]
n
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a verse form employed by the troubadours of Provence to satirize moral or political themes
[via French from Provençal sirventes song of a servant (that is, of a lover serving his mistress), from sirvent a servant, from Latin servīre to serve]


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The knight in the meantime, had brought the strings into some order, and after a short prelude, asked his host whether he would choose a sirvente in the language of oc, or a lai in the language of oui, or a virelai, or a ballad in the vulgar English.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
I remember well that, at the siege of Retters, there was a little, sleek, fat clerk of the name of Chaucer, who was so apt at rondel, sirvente, or tonson, that no man dare give back a foot from the walls, lest he find it all set down in his rhymes and sung by every underling and varlet in the camp.
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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