Crossword-Solution: SIRVENTE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sirvente | n. | A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SIRVENTE | anagram | NERVIEST, REINVEST |
We have 1 clue for the answer “SIRVENTE”
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| verse form employed by the troubadours of Provence to satirize political themes | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
PWAOLL
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Sentences with SIRVENTE (5)
The knight in the meantime, had brought the strings into some order, and after a short prelude, asked his host whether he would choose a “sirvente” in the language of “oc”, or a “lai” in the language of “oui”, or a “virelai”, or a ballad in the vulgar English.
And if I read an old _Sirvente_ of the Troubadours, beginning with a certain redolence of the fields, all this yields presently to knights, and steeds caparisoned,-- "Cavalliers ab cavals armatz." It is smooth reading, and is attributed to Bertrand de Born,[3] who lived in the time when even the lion-hearted King Richard turned his brawny fingers to the luting of a song.
The sirvente was a song of war or politics, sometimes satirical, sometimes in praise of the exploits of a generous patron.
The rhymes in the sirvente differed from what we consider correct by consisting always of a repetition of the same word.
The very Icelanders who sailed to Constantinople in the intervals of making the subjects of these sagas, and sometimes of composing them, must not seldom have passed or landed on the coasts where _cansos_ and _tensos_, _lai_ and _sirvente_, were being woven, and have listened to them as the Ulyssean mariners listened to the songs of the sirens.