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trouveur

Variant of trouvère

noun

any of a class of lyric and narrative poets and poet-musicians in N France, flourishing in the 12th and 13th cent.

Origin: Fr < OFr trovere < trover, to find, compose (akin to Prov trobar: see troubadour)

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