troubadours


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

Words Nearby troubadours

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How to use troubadours in a sentence

  • Is David Wildstein joining this list of great New Jersey troubadours by singing to the U.S. Attorney?

  • It is the spirit that inspired the sweet troubadours, and set the voice of Mirabeau thundering like the mistral.

    Frdric Mistral | Charles Alfred Downer
  • Esterello consoles him with more stories from the Chansons de geste and the songs of the troubadours.

    Frdric Mistral | Charles Alfred Downer
  • But for the ladies, their troops of troubadours and their "courts of love," Richard had only pleasant words, no more.

    God Wills It! | William Stearns Davis
  • In life it is the duty and the function of the Baron to provide work for the Workers and lodging and shelter for the troubadours.

    Sixes and Sevens | O. Henry