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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 [troo-bad-oor]
Noun
a travelling poet and singer in S France or N Italy from the 11th to the 13th century who wrote chiefly on courtly love [French]
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Noun1.troubadourtroubadour - a singer of folk songs
singer, vocalist, vocalizer, vocaliser - a person who sings

troubadour
noun minstrel, singer, poet, balladeer, lyric poet, jongleur

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Pickwick, with the brigand on one arm, and the troubadour on the other, walked solemnly up the entrance.
If poor Troubadour had not cast a shoe, we should not have had this trouble.
asked a gallant troubadour of the fairy queen who floated down the hall upon his arm.
 
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