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‖ trouvère, trouveur|truvɛr|, |truvœr|
[OF. trovere, -eur, truveur (12th c. in Godef.), F. trouvère, trouveur (= Prov. trobaire), f. trouver: cf. troubadour.]
One of a school of poets who flourished in Northern France from the 11th to the 14th c., whose works are chiefly epic in character. They produced the chansons de geste, fabliaux, etc. Cf. troubadour.
1795Southey Joan of Arc iv. 175 Meantime the Trouveur struck the harp; he sung Of Lancelot Du Lake. 1833Longfellow Outre-Mer Prose Wks. 1886 I. 94 The great mass of the poetry of the Trouvères is of a narrative or epic character. 1887Lowell Old Eng. Dram. (1892) 7 One French Miracle Play of the thirteenth century, by the trouvère Rutebeuf. 1889Doyle Micah Clarke 208 A king of bards and trouveurs. |