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troubadour |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Troubadour \Trou"ba*dour`\, n. [F. troubadour, fr Pr trobador (assumed) LL tropator a singer, tropare to sing, fr tropus a kind of singing, a melody, song, L. tropus a trope, a song, Gr ? a turn, way manner, particular mode in music, a trope. See {Trope}, and cf {Trouv?re}.] One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: troubadour n : a singer of folk songs [syn: {folk singer}, {jongleur}, {minstrel}, {poet-singer}]
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