I. noun
also trou·ba·dor ˈtrübəˌdō(ə)r, -dȯ(ə)r, -du̇(ə)r, -ōə, -ȯ(ə), -u̇ə
( -s )
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: French troubadour, from Middle French, from Old Provençal trobador, from trobar to compose in verse, probably from (assumed) Vulgar Latin tropare to compose, from Latin tropus trope — more at trope
1. : one of a class of lyric poets and poet-musicians often of knightly rank flourishing from the 11th to the end of the 13th century chiefly in Provence, the south of France, and the north of Italy and cultivating a lyric poetry intricate in meter and rhyme and usually of a romantic amatory strain — compare trouve re
2. : a strolling minstrel ; also : anyone who in music, verse, or rhetorical prose promotes some cause
II. intransitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
: to act the part of a troubadour