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tenson
[ ten-sohn ]
noun
- a Provençal poem taking the form of a dialogue or debate between two rival troubadours.
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Among the Troubadours, this species of musical dialogue took the form of the tenson, or contention.
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Disputes before these courts usually took the form of the tenson, or contention, already described.
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When more than two singers took part in a tenson, it became a tournament.
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Somewhere out in the gloom coyotes chattered and yelped, and from far across the dusky valley others answered—a doleful tenson.
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Suppose, doctor, you were to get up a tenson a little more relative to our own wise days.
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