trouvère — meaning in English
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English meaning
- troubadour noun A traveling poet-musician of medieval Europe who composed and performed songs, often about courtly love.
Senses
trouvère is used for these senses in English:
- troubadour An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.
- trouvère A medieval lyric poet using the Northern langue d’oïl (precursor dialects of modern French), as opposed to their older, southern example, the original troubadours, who used langue d’oc (Occitan)
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