Troubadour is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TROUBADOUR in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (French) any of a class of poet-musicians flourishing esp. in southern France and northern Italy during the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries
• a French medieval lyric poet composing and singing in Provençal in the 11th to 13th centuries, especially on the theme of courtly love.
• a poet who writes verse to music.
• any of a class of poet-musicians flourishing especially in southern France and northern Italy during the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries
• One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain.
• a singer of folk songs
• a French medieval lyric poet composing and singing in Provençal in the 11th to 13th centuries, especially on the theme of courtly love.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one of a class of lyric poets and poet-musicians often of knightly rank who flourished from the 11th to the end of the 13th century chiefly in the south of France and the north of Italy and whose major theme was courtly love — compare trouvère

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How to use TROUBADOUR in a sentence

• As a mere youth he wrote sonnets, such as Sordello the Troubadour would not disdain to own.
• Poet, bard, and troubadour would have noted and published his quickness on the point of honour.
• For the moment I was care free, a wandering minstrel, like some troubadour of old, care free and happy in my song.
• The estimable troubadour, Brault, had advised me of the history of Tautira.
• And so there was the other troubadour, the Châtelain Regnault de Coucy.
• Fray Ignatio sang like a good monk, and Pedro Gutierrez like a troubadour of no great weight.
• What hope is there for a troubadour nowadays with the latest regulations upon street noises? We must dispense with troubadours and get our Romance elsewhere.
• In order to make it clearer I will quote an Arabian song from a manuscript in the British Museum, and place beside it one by the troubadour Capdeuil.
• Few women at the present time appreciate the debt of honor and gratitude they owe to the troubadour or wandering minstrel of the early Middle Age.
• Of these the folk song, and the troubadour lyrics had some musical figure, out of which a clear form might have been developed.
• Comes that cheerful troubadour, This mound shall throb his face before, As when, with inward fires and pain, It rose a bubble from the plain.
• None knew that the troubadour whose love had cost the lady her life, who had slain the guest of her father, and had then disappeared, was the unhappy son of that guest.
• He carried a long staff, a short sword, and at his back the lute or small harp played upon by the troubadour.
• The first troubadour, William, Count of Poitiers, belongs to the close of the eleventh century.
• Skilful variation upon a given theme, rather than inspired or creative power, is generally characteristic of the troubadour.
• A joglar of originality might rise to the position of a troubadour, and a troubadour who fell upon evil days might sink to the profession of joglar.
• Hence there was naturally some confusion between the troubadour and the joglar, and poets sometimes combined the two functions.
• These naturally affected the joglars in their service, who received a share of any gifts that the troubadour might obtain.
• Love in troubadour poetry was essentially a conventional relationship, and marriage was not its object.
• Troubadour poems were composed for singing, not for recitation, and the music of a poem was an element of no less importance than the words.
• He began his troubadour wanderings early and at the outset of his career we find him in Catalonia, Aragon and Castile.
• The troubadour, however, is said to have gone no farther than Cyprus.
• Folquet of Marseilles is a troubadour whose life belongs to these years of turmoil.
• He is placed in Paradise by Dante and is the only troubadour who there appears, no doubt because of his services to the Church.
• The fact is, that the nature of troubadour poetry and its homage to the married woman were incompatible with the highest standard of religious devotion.
• These, however, have little in common with classical troubadour poetry except language.
• The last named is known to have visited Pisa and another troubadour of minor importance, Guillem de la Tor, was in Florence.
• Guiraut Riquier applied to a Northern patron for protection, a proceeding unexampled in troubadour history and the patron he selected was the King of France himself.
• References to Portugal in the poetry of the troubadours are very scarce, nor is there any definite evidence that any troubadour visited the country.
• The second part gives a list of the troubadours in alphabetical order, with the lyric poems attributed to each troubadour.
• CHAPTER IX Troubadour influence in Germany is discussed at greater or less length in most histories of German literature.
• At last romantic reminiscences overflowed in my brain, and sometimes I was a page, and sometimes a troubadour.
• Nothing resembled less the clock face and troubadour Middle Age which flourished about 1825.

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