troubadour
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English
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.
- 2023 August 17, Jeremy Levick & Rajat Suresh, “Hybrid Creatures” (0:18 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 7, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):
- “"Not a human, not yet a vampire," to paraphrase one of your contemporary musical troubadours.”
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Derived terms
Translations
an itinerant performer of songs
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References
- “troubadour”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Danish
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 |
French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan trobador (< trobar (“to find”)) via Old French troubadour. Corresponds to the native French trouveur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁu.ba.duʁ/
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Noun
troubadour m (plural troubadours, feminine troubadouresse or trobairitz)
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Further reading
- “troubadour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.