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
As an old trouvère says: "The lover does not leave his beloved but with the sanction of his soul."
From Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Gilbert Cannan
It is essentially a comic opera; but that a trouvère of the thirteenth century should by himself, so far as we can see, have founded comic opera is not a small thing.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
The first three poems are in French, of the well-known and by this time far from novel trouvère character, of which those of Thibaut of Champagne are the best specimens.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
And of this we fortunately have in English a poetical version from the great trouvère among the poets of our day, the late Mr William Morris.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) 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
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
It was not wonderful, therefore, that the trouvères should fly upon this spoil.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
The verses of the troubadours and trouvères of twelfth-century France had little to do with Christianity; their songs were mostly of earthly and illicit love.
From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles
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
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