Trouveur

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A minstrel, a troubadour. dated

    "1796, Robert Southey, Joan of Arc, Book IV, 1829, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, page 16, Meantime the Trouveur struck the harp; he sang Of Lancelot du Lake, the truest Knight That ever loved fair Lady;"

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"1796, Robert Southey, Joan of Arc, Book IV, 1829, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, page 16, Meantime the Trouveur struck the harp; he sang Of Lancelot du Lake, the truest Knight That ever loved fair Lady;"

Etymology

From French trouveur. Piecewise doublet of troubadour.

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