Definitions

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  • noun An occasional synonym of trouvère.

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  • noun dated A minstrel, a troubadour.

Etymologies

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From French trouveur; compare troubadour.

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Examples

  • On the contrary, he blessed the good fortune which had sent him into so delightful a country, and it seemed to him as he listened to dreadful stories of robber barons, and looked round at the black scars of war which lay branded upon the fair faces of the hills, that no hero of romances or trouveur had ever journeyed through such a land of promise, with so fair

    Sir Nigel Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • This appeal to "The Graal" as the authority for a general belief shows that it was at that time recognised as a well-spring of authentic knowledge; while the fact that the trouveur was not confounding "The Graal" with the later version of the story is further shown by his going on presently to speak of "the Romance that Chrestien telleth so fairly of Perceval the adventures of the Graal."

    The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869

  • Big map | Google Earth KML | OpenStreetMap trouveur (updated 5 minutes ago) lat: 51.1186912, long: 6.0373669

    Tagzania.com - azkenak trouveur 2010

  • On the contrary, he blessed the good fortune which had sent him into so delightful a country, and it seemed to him as he listened to dreadful stories of robber barons, and looked round at the black scars of war which lay branded upon the fair faces of the hills, that no hero of romances or trouveur had ever journeyed through such a land of promise, with so fair a chance of knightly venture and honorable advancement.

    Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906

  • (_trouvere = trouveur_), had just then given an aspect of grandeur to a class of composition unjustly regarded as of the second rank.

    The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Several years later, about 1280, the trouveur Sarrazin also cites "The

    The High History of the Holy Graal Anonymous 1869

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