trouvère
Americannoun
plural
trouvèresnoun
Etymology
Origin of trouvère
1785–95; < French; Old French troveor, equivalent to trov ( er ) to find, compose ( trover ) + -eor < Latin -ātor -ator
Example Sentences
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The chansons had a common form, or something very like it, which almost dispensed the trouvère from devoting much pains to the individual conduct of the story.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
Lastly, Walther von der Vogelweide appears to have been actually a "working poet," as we may say—a trouvère, who sang his own poems as he wandered about, and whose surname was purely a decorative one.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
In the first part all the love-poetry of troubadour and trouvère is gathered up and presented under the guise of a graceful dreamy symbolism, a little though not much sicklied o'er with learning.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
A trouvère of the thirteenth century, named Robert de Blois, compiled a code of etiquette which he put in French verse under the title, Chastisement des Dames.
From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh
And though in the lyric, the debt due to both troubadour and trouvère is unmistakable, it is equally unmistakable what mighty usury the minnesingers have paid for the capital they borrowed.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
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