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Medieval French poet
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trouvere
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Wikipedia
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Trouvère , sometimes spelled trouveur , is the Northern French ( langue d'oïl ) form of the langue d'oc (Occitan) word trobador . It refers to poet-composers who were roughly contemporary with and influenced by the troubadours (composers and performers ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trouvere \Trou`v[`e]re"\, Trouveur \Trou`veur"\, n. [F. trouveur, trouv[`e]re. See Troubadour .] One of a school of poets who flourished in Northern France from the eleventh to the fourteenth century.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A medieval lyric poet using the Northern langue d'oïl (precursor dialects of modern French), as opposed to their older, southern example, the original troubadours, who used langue d'oc (Occitan)
Usage examples of trouvere.
And yet he is wonderfully near us, whereas he is separated by a great gulf from the rude trouveres of the Chansons de Gestes and from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which was still dragging out its weary length in his early days.