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troubadour noun [ ˈtruːbədɔː ]

• a French medieval lyric poet composing and singing in Provençal in the 11th to 13th centuries, especially on the theme of courtly love.
Similar: minstrel, singer, balladeer, poet, jongleur, trouvère, trouveur, Minnesinger, joculator,
Origin: French, from Provençal trobador, from trobar ‘find, invent, compose in verse’.


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