Trou"ba*dour` (?), n. [F. troubadour,
fr. Pr. trobador, (assumed) LL. tropator a singer,
tropare to sing, fr. tropus a kind of singing, a melody,
song, L. tropus a trope, a song, Gr. &?; a turn, way, manner,
particular mode in music, a trope. See Trope, and cf.
Trouv&?;re.] One of a school of poets who flourished from the
eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south
of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially
cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter
and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain.
Trou"ba*dour` (?), n. [F. troubadour,
fr. Pr. trobador, (assumed) LL. tropator a singer,
tropare to sing, fr. tropus a kind of singing, a melody,
song, L. tropus a trope, a song, Gr. &?; a turn, way, manner,
particular mode in music, a trope. See Trope, and cf.
Trouv&?;re.] One of a school of poets who flourished from the
eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south
of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially
cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter
and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain.
