troubadour

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.

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[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.]

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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]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

troubadour - a singer of folk songs               folk singer, jongleur, minstrel, poet-singer singer, vocalist, vocalizer, vocaliser - a person who sings

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troubadour

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