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troubadour

English

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Etymology

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From Old Occitan trobar (“to find”) via Old French troubadour. Piecewise doublet of trouveur.

Noun

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troubadour (plural troubadours)

  1. An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.
    • 2014 April 24, Alan Cowell, “At Pistorius trial, Twitterati have their day in court”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      Sitting in the courtroom ..., their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted adapters, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times – the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution.
    • 2023 August 17, Jeremy Levick & Rajat Suresh, “Hybrid Creatures” (0:18 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎[2], season 5, episode 7, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):
      “"Not a human, not yet a vampire," to paraphrase one of your contemporary musical troubadours.”

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Danish

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Noun

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troubadour c (singular definite troubadouren, plural indefinite troubadourer)

  1. Alternative spelling of trubadur

Declension

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Declension of troubadour
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative troubadour troubadouren troubadourer troubadourerne
genitive troubadours troubadourens troubadourers troubadourernes

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Occitan trobador (< trobar (“to find”)) via Old French troubadour. Corresponds to the native French trouveur.

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Noun

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troubadour m (plural troubadours, feminine troubadouresse or trobairitz)

  1. troubadour

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