troubadour
IPA: trˈubʌdɔr
noun
- An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.
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Examples of "troubadour" in Sentences
- He was the father of the troubadour Blacasset.
- He is thus sometimes described as a troubadour.
- Henry arrives at Mainz disguised as a troubadour.
- He was a poet, a troubadour and a daring warrior.
- Sirventes and Planh are technical troubadour terms.
- He was a noted troubadour and patron of troubadours.
- At its height, it was a centre of troubadour culture.
- He was nevertheless a distinguished poet and troubadour.
- It is not known if this was the troubadour or his cousin.
- As for the poetry of the troubadours, it was dead for ever.
- My vote goes for nearly any of Springsteen's "troubadour" songs.
- The word troubadour could have been invented for Matt Epp. Since emerging out of Winnipeg,
- From the latter: The great Alex Chilton is gone — folk troubadour, blues shouter, master singer, songwriter and guitarist.
- The troubadour was a very different person, generally a noble who wrote poems, set them to music, and employed _jongleurs_ to sing and play them.
- Before that, a student was a kind of troubadour, a cross between a monk and a crusader, a knight-errant of love and letters, and the moral code for him did not apply.
- NPR says, "She's a kind of troubadour for the 21st century, gracefully channeling '60s psychedelic pop and folk and retooling it to fit her own imaginative stylings."
- Maybe it's because he's a fresh-faced Midwesterner, but you never hear the word troubadour associated with Josh Rouse despite rambling ways that have taken him around the world
- His more inflected notes and husky sincerity here belong to his wistful "troubadour" phase, making up in sheer hypnotic beauty what his vocalizations later gained in incantatory power.
- Pons hitherto had dined abroad, eluding her desire to have both of "her gentlemen" entirely under her management; his "troubadour" collector's life had scared away certain vague ideas which hovered in La Cibot's brain; but now her shadowy projects assumed the formidable shape of a definite plan, dating from that memorable dinner.
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