trouvère
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trouvères
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Origin of trouvère
1785–95; < French; Old French troveor, equivalent to trov ( er ) to find, compose ( see trover) + -eor < Latin -ātor -ator
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And though in the lyric, the debt due to both troubadour and trouvère is unmistakable, it is equally unmistakable what mighty usury the minnesingers have paid for the capital they borrowed.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
The poet is now Rymer or Rimmer, while Trover, Fr. trouvère, a poet, minstrel, lit. finder, has been confused with Trower, for Thrower, a name connected with weaving.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
To such a society the strongly realistic Carolingian epic had ceased to appeal: the tales of the Welsh and Breton bards, repeated by trouvère and jongleur, troubadour and minnesinger, came as a revelation.
From Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II by Vernon Lee
A trouvère of the thirteenth century, named Robert de Blois, compiled a code of etiquette which he put in French verse under the title, Chastisement des Dames.
From Women of England by Bartlett Burleigh James
We seldom know the name of the trouvère by whom these anecdotes were versified.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta
Jongleurs, were mediæval minstrels of Provence and Northern France, who sang and often composed songs and tales, but whose jesting and buffoonery distinguished them from the knightly troubadours and trouvères.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
The trouvères were not only the inventors of the romances of chivalry, but they originated the allegories, and the dramatic compositions of southern Europe.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta
The first of these, so far as unquestioned evidence goes, were French trouvères.
From A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel
The verse dialogues and débats, which both troubadours and trouvères had favoured, were in themselves incompletely dramatic.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
The octo-syllabic measure, with an occasional line of three feet, to break the monotony, is purely minstrelic, and reproduces the effect of the troubadours and trouvères.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee
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