troubadour

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

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:

     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.

• trobairitz

troubadour c (singular definite troubadouren, plural indefinite troubadourer)

1. Alternative spelling of trubadur

• trobador

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

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troubadour m (plural troubadours, feminine troubadouresse or trobairitz)

1. troubadour

• femme-troubadour
• trobairitz

• “troubadour”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.