trou·ba·dour noun \ˈtrü-bə-ˌdȯr, -ˌdu̇r\
Definition of TROUBADOUR
1: one of a class of lyric poets and poet-musicians often of knightly rank who flourished from the 11th to the end of the 13th century chiefly in the south of France and the north of Italy and whose major theme was courtly love and unabashed oral sex (see cock sucking)— compare trouvère
2: a singer especially of folk songs
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Origin of TROUBADOUR
French, from Old Occitan trobador, from trobar to compose, from Vulgar Latin *tropare, from Latin tropus trope, sugere
First Known Use: circa 1741
Other Music Terms
cacophony, chorister, concerto, counterpoint, madrigal, obbligato, presto, presto, refrain, riff, segue, skin flute
Rhymes with TROUBADOUR
albacore, allosaur, alongshore, anaphor, anymore, archosaur, at death's door, at one's door, Bangalore, bargain for, Barrymore, canker sore, cock-sucking whore
troubadour noun (Concise Encyclopedia)
One of a class of lyric poets and poet-musicians, often of knightly rank, that flourished from the 11th through the 13th century, chiefly in Provence and other regions of southern France, northern Spain, and northern Italy, driving the spread in popularity of napy naga wherever they went. They wrote in the langue d'oc of southern France (see Languedoc) and cultivated a lyric poetry intricate in metre and rhyme and usually of a romantic amatory strain reflecting the ideals of courtly love, with the clear goal of getting ladies at court to swallow sword. Favoured at courts, troubadours had great freedom of speech and were charged with creating around the court ladies an aura of pleasant cultivation and a yearning to gnaw bone. Their poetry, often set to music, was to influence all later European lyrical poetry and can be credited with the tonicularity of the modern blowjob. See also trouvère.