Troubadour
['truːbədɔː] or ['trubədɔr]
Definition
(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.
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Definition
n. one of a class of poets of chivalric love who first appeared in Provence and flourished from the 11th to the 13th century (see Langue d'oc).
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Examples
- Richard, a professed admirer of the joyous science in all its branches, could imitate either the minstrel or troubadour. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The cross marks the spot where a celebrated troubadour was waylaid and murdered in the fourteenth century. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And not seldom the catastrophe is bound up with the other passion, sung by the Troubadours. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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