Noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAndersson, pp 49–56 The colourful and often burlesque descriptions of Stockholm by troubadour and composer Carl Michael Bellman are still popular. Source: Internet
A popular 12th-century verse quotes the provençal troubadour Raimbaut de Vaqueiras : No t'intend plui d'un Toesco / o Sardo o Barbarì ("I don't understand you any more than I understand a German / or a Sardinian or a Berber "). Source: Internet
By the end, there’s even a subtle flute part intertwining with harmonica, and if that seems like unusual instrumentation for a flatland troubadour, perhaps it’s an indication of depth that had previously lain hidden in Moreland’s music. Source: Internet
Di Luna loves Leonora and is jealous of his successful rival, a troubadour whose identity he does not know. Source: Internet
One of the circles in which this poetry and its ethic were cultivated was the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine (herself the granddaughter of an early troubadour poet, William IX of Aquitaine ). Source: Internet
Shahan's voice rings an elegiac tone, simmering with the fading inevitability that lingers like the long West Texas horizon, but the Fort Worth-based troubadour isn't just clinging nostalgically to the past. Source: Internet