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
Chrétien, or Chrestien, de Troyes, a French poet or trouvère of the last half of the 12th century; author of a number of vigorously written romances connected with chivalry and the Round Table.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall
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 chansons had a common form, or something very like it, which almost dispensed the trouvère from devoting much pains to the individual conduct of the story.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury
It was situated upon the border of the lake, which, by trouvère and troubadour, in song and in verse, in every age and in every clime, has been so justly celebrated.
From The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century by George Henry Miles
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
A collection of Indian tales, translated into Latin in the tenth or eleventh century, was the first storehouse of the trouvères.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta
Some productions of the trouvères may fairly be allowed an elevation of aim and of treatment entitling them to be called epic in character.
From Classic French Course in English by William Cleaver Wilkinson
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 Anglo-Norman trouvères arranged these tales in graduated circles around their nucleus, the legend of the Holy Grail.
From The Book of the Epic by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
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