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Troubadour

//ˈtruːbəˌdɔː// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.

    "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."

  2. 2
    a singer of folk songs wordnet

Etymology

From Old Occitan trobar (“to find”) via Old French troubadour. Piecewise doublet of trouveur.

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