Trobairitz

//ˌtɹoʊ̯.bʌˈɹɪts// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A female composer of Old Occitan lyric poetry; a female troubadour. historical

    "This single melody, which is also the only one by a trobairitz to have been identified, is preserved in only one thirteenth-century manuscript, and it includes only the first cobla, or stanza ."

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"A female troubadour is usually called a trobairitz."

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan trobairitz.

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