troubadours

Cultural  

1. Traveling poet-musicians who flourished in southern Europe during the twelfth century. They wrote songs about chivalry and love.

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Example Sentences

A wily, rambling record that demonstrated a clear debt to such longhair redneck troubadours as Jerry Jeff Walker, “Down to Earth” didn’t find an audience.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2023

How many times did "Gilmore Girls" have a show, a tiny village with not one but multiple troubadours and Miss Patty's prolific dance studio?

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2022

Otherwise, the movie floats along pleasantly enough for much of its 137 minutes, with nice period detail, such as a scene with a colorful band of troubadours.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2021

At that time in the United States, the Chicano civil rights movement was blossoming, and mariachi musicians morphed from folksy troubadours to cultural heroes, “symbols of Mexican identity heightened here because of multiculturalism,” Sheehy added.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2021

The revolutionary element he introduced into the sacred music he wrote at Notre-Dame was something he’d clearly learnt from the troubadours, who had in turn picked it up from Spain: rhythm.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall