Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of a class of 12th-century and 13th-century lyric poets in southern France, northern Italy, and northern Spain, who composed songs in langue d'oc often about courtly love.
- noun A strolling minstrel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a class of early poets who first appeared in Provence, France.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
itinerant composer andperformer ofsongs inmedieval Europe ; ajongleur or travellingminstrel .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a singer of folk songs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word troubadour could have been invented for Matt Epp. Since emerging out of Winnipeg,
All articles at Blogcritics Jeff Perkins 2010
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The word troubadour could have been invented for Matt Epp. Since emerging out of Winnipeg,
All articles at Blogcritics Jeff Perkins 2010
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Maybe it's because he's a fresh-faced Midwesterner, but you never hear the word troubadour associated with Josh Rouse despite rambling ways that have taken him around the world
WN.com - Articles related to Michael Jackson Biographer Releasing Movie About Pop Star's Final Days 2010
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The troubadour was a very different person, generally a noble who wrote poems, set them to music, and employed _jongleurs_ to sing and play them.
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Edward MacDowell 1884
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My vote goes for nearly any of Springsteen's "troubadour" songs.
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Before that, a student was a kind of troubadour, a cross between a monk and a crusader, a knight-errant of love and letters, and the moral code for him did not apply.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Elbert Hubbard 1885
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Pons hitherto had dined abroad, eluding her desire to have both of "her gentlemen" entirely under her management; his "troubadour" collector's life had scared away certain vague ideas which hovered in La Cibot's brain; but now her shadowy projects assumed the formidable shape of a definite plan, dating from that memorable dinner.
Cousin Pons Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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His more inflected notes and husky sincerity here belong to his wistful "troubadour" phase, making up in sheer hypnotic beauty what his vocalizations later gained in incantatory power.
Variety.com 2010
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NPR says, "She's a kind of troubadour for the 21st century, gracefully channeling '60s psychedelic pop and folk and retooling it to fit her own imaginative stylings."
Johnny Brenda's 2008
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From the latter: The great Alex Chilton is gone — folk troubadour, blues shouter, master singer, songwriter and guitarist.
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