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View synonyms for trouvère
trouvère
[ troo-vair; French troo-ver ]
noun
, plural trou·vères [troo-, vairz, t, r, oo-, ver].
- one of a class of medieval poets who flourished in northern France during the 12th and 13th centuries, wrote in langue d'oïl, and composed chiefly the chansons de geste and works on the themes of courtly love.
trouvère
/ truvœr; truvɛr; truːˈvɛə /
noun
- any of a group of poets of N France during the 12th and 13th centuries who composed chiefly narrative works
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of trouvère1
C19: from French, from Old French troveor , from trover to compose; related to troubadour
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He is a poet in the primitive sense of the word, or, as he styled himself in one of his books, a "trouvère."
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Expansion, however, so difficult to some writers, was never in the least a stumbling-block to the trouvère.
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There were, perhaps, trouvère-knights in the garrisons of Edessa or of Jôf who could have told us all about it.
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Rutebœuf, a noted French trouvère of the thirteenth century, gives us a quaint picture of a scene frequently witnessed in his day.
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He supported himself, like a trouvère, by his proficiency in verse.
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