troubadours

Cultural  

1. Traveling poet-musicians who flourished in southern Europe during the twelfth century. They wrote songs about chivalry and love.

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Example Sentences

It helped establish a popular theme among modern-day troubadours with its tale of a lonely and destitute wanderer far from home “with a dollar in my hand, and an aching in my heart.”

From Los Angeles Times

How many times did "Gilmore Girls" have a show, a tiny village with not one but multiple troubadours and Miss Patty's prolific dance studio?

From Salon

The original trovadores were migrant troubadours who also dabbled in bolero and bufo, a kind of satirical musical theater, gradually incorporating Afro-Cuban rhythms.

From New York Times

A jazz clarinetist who reinvented himself as a singer-songwriter, Dalla nonetheless became one of Italy’s most beloved troubadours in the later decades of the 20th century.

From New York Times

He’s shared stages and dwellings with America’s most storied troubadours.

From Washington Post