TROUVERE

[trou.vere] n [F, fr. OF troveor, troverre, fr. trover to compose, find, fr. (assumed) VL tropare--more at troubadour] (1795): one of a school of poets who flourished from the 11th to the 14th centuries and who composed mostly narrative works (as chansons de geste and fabliaux)--compare troubadour