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trouveur
Variant of trouvère
trouvère
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trou·vère (tro̵̅o̅ ver′)
noun
any of a class of lyric and narrative poets and poet-musicians in N France, flourishing in the 12th and 13th cent.
also trouveur trou·veur′ (-vʉr′)
Etymology: Fr < OFr trovere < trover, to find, compose (akin to Prov trobar: see troubadour)
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