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The definition of a troubadour is someone who sings folk songs or is a poet who writes verses to music.

(noun)

An example of a troubadour is a French lyrical poet who writes poems about courtship and love and sets them to music.

See troubadour in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

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
a minstrel or singer

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

See troubadour in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

One of a class of 12th-century and 13th-century lyric poets in Southern France, northern Italy, and northern Spain, who composed songs in langue d'oc often about courtly love.
A strolling minstrel.

Origin:

Origin: French

Origin: , from Provençal trobador

Origin: , from Old Provençal

Origin: , from trobar, to compose

Origin: , perhaps from Vulgar Latin *tropāre

Origin: , from Late Latin tropus, trope, song

Origin: , from Latin, trope; see trope

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