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Definition of Troubadour
1. Noun. A singer of folk songs.
Generic synonyms: Singer, Vocaliser, Vocalist, Vocalizer
Specialized synonyms: Guthrie, Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peter Seeger, Seeger
Derivative terms: Minstrel
Definition of Troubadour
1. n. 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.
Definition of Troubadour
1. Noun. An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Troubadour
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Medical Definition of Troubadour
1. 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 characterised by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain. Origin: 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. Trouvre. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Troubadour
Literary usage of Troubadour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"... troubadour GLOWING with love, on fire for fame, A troubadour that hated sorrow
Beneath his lady's window came, And thus he sung his last good-morrow: ..."
2. The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet: With a Biographical and by Walter Scott, Francis Turner Palgrave (1893)
"GLOWING with love, on fire for fame, [ISIS-] A troubadour that hated sorrow,
Beneath his lady's window came, With dauntless heart hehew'd his way, ..."
3. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"... songs.3 Both are good illustrations of troubadour songs.1 Ex. 10. Quant le
Rossignal. ... example* of troubadour ..."
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