Troubadour
COMPOSER AND PERFORMER OF OLD OCCITAN LYRIC POETRY DURING THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES
Troubadours; Troubadors; Trobadour; Trobador; Trobadors; Trovatore; Trovatores; Trovador; Trovadors; Trovadora; Trovadoras; Trubador; Troubadour poetry; Traubadours; Troubadour lyric; Troubador
·noun 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.