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  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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