Troubadour

Word TROUBADOUR
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Hyphenation trou ba dour
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What do we mean by troubadour?

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. noun

One of a class of early poets who first appeared in Provence, France. 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. noun

An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel. noun

A singer of folk songs noun

An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.

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The word "troubadour" in example sentences

The word troubadour could have been invented for Matt Epp. Since emerging out of Winnipeg, ❋ Jeff Perkins (2010)

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 ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Edward MacDowell (1884)

My vote goes for nearly any of Springsteen's "troubadour" songs. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)

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. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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." ❋ Unknown (2008)

The days activities started out at 3:00 pm with the Cuban troubadour and guitar player Juan-Carlos Formell. ❋ Ralph A. Miriello (2011)

"Life Is Empty" gives us Faergolzia in full folk troubadour mode, while "Gracious Host" is a kind of pseudo-tango--both lacking the panache of singularity that is quintessential Dufus. ❋ Daniel J. Kushner (2011)

Monty Python – troubadour of British despondency – once mocked such miserabilism in song. ❋ Unknown (2011)

From the latter: The great Alex Chilton is gone — folk troubadour, blues shouter, master singer, songwriter and guitarist. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Current signings range from schizoid punks Pulled Apart By Horses to acoustic troubadour Liam Finn as well as legendary Blur guitarist Graham Coxon. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Ray Davies – former Kink and current Meltdown curator – slings on a guitar, preparing to accompany the Canadian troubadour on a version of the Kinks 1978 track 'Misfits'. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Mr. Bragg, who is 53 years old, supersized the venerable troubadour tradition in 2007 when he staged the first Big Busk at the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall at the Southbank Centre in London. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)

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