troubadour

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˈtruːbəˌdɔː/
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/ˈtruːbəˌdɔː/ · /ˈtrubəˌdɔr/

Definition of troubadour

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.
    “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.”
    ““"Not a human, not yet a vampire," to paraphrase one of your contemporary musical troubadours.””

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Etymology

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

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