troubadour
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Etymology
From Old Occitan trobar (“to find”) via Old French troubadour. Piecewise doublet of trouveur.
Noun
troubadour (plural troubadours)
- An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.
- 2014 April 24, Alan Cowell, “At Pistorius trial, Twitterati have their day in court”, in The New York Times:
- Sitting in the courtroom ..., their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted adapters, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times – the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution.
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
an itinerant performer of songs
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Noun
troubadour c (singular definite troubadouren, plural indefinite troubadourer)
- Alternative spelling of trubadur
Declension
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | troubadour | troubadouren | troubadourer | troubadourerne |
| genitive | troubadours | troubadourens | troubadourers | troubadourernes |
Declension of troubadour
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan trobador (< trobar (“to find”)) via Old French troubadour. Corresponds to the native French trouveur.
Pronunciation
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Noun
troubadour m (plural troubadours, feminine troubadouresse or trobairitz)
Coordinate terms
- femme-troubadour
- trobairitz
Further reading
- “troubadour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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