Troubadours were poets and singers who used to travel around and perform to noble families in Italy and France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
2. countable noun
People sometimes refer to popular singers as troubadours, especially when the words of their songs are an important part of their music.
More Synonyms of troubadour
troubadour in British English
(ˈtruːbəˌdʊə)
noun
1.
any of a class of lyric poets who flourished principally in Provence and N Italy from the 11th to the 13th centuries, writing chiefly on courtly love in complex metric form
2.
a singer
Word origin
C18: from French, from Old Provençal trobador, from trobar to write verses, perhaps ultimately from Latin tropustrope
troubadour in American English
(ˈtrubəˌdɔr)
noun
1.
any of a class of lyric poets and poet-musicians in S France and N Spain and Italy during the 11th through 13th cent. who wrote poems and songs of love and chivalry, usually with intricate stanza form and rhyme scheme
see also trouvère
2.
a minstrel or singer
Word origin
Fr < Prov trobador < trobar, to compose, invent, find < ? VL *tropare, prob. back-form. < contropare, to combine, compare < L con-, with (> OL com: see com-) + L tropus, trope
Examples of 'troubadour' in a sentence
troubadour
The heavy rock singer turned folk troubadour continues to grow in popularity.
The Sun (2015)
How far were troubadour love affairs all in the mind?
Pamela Norris Words Of Love: Passionate Women from Heloise to Sylvia Plath (2006)
It casts him as acoustic troubadour but aided by string arrangements and the odd blast of electricity.
The Sun (2009)
Word lists with
troubadour
Types of writer
(noun)
Definition
a travelling poet and singer in S France or N Italy from the 11th to the 13th century who wrote chiefly on courtly love
melodies like a medieval troubadour's laments
Synonyms
minstrel
He was playing a banjo and garbed in a minstrel's outfit.