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Troubadour

Troubadour Meaning & Definition
Troubadour Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Troubadour?

[n] a singer of folk songs

Synonyms | Synonyms for Troubadour: folk singer | jongleur | minstrel | poet-singer

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See Also | Guthrie | Pete Seeger | Peter Seeger | Seeger | singer | vocaliser | vocalist | vocalizer | Woodrow Wilson Guthrie | Woody Guthrie

Troubadour In Webster's Dictionary

\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.

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