Crossword-Solution: TROUBADOUR
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| Troubadour | n. | One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “TROUBADOUR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Entertainer singing about courtly love | 1 answer |
| Love poet of old | 1 answer |
| Minnesinger. | 2 answers |
| Lyrist. | 2 answers |
| Poet-singer | 2 answers |
| STREET entertainer | 3 answers |
| Wandering minstrel. | 5 answers |
| menestrier | 14 answers |
| bhat | 15 answers |
| rimer | 15 answers |
| goliard | 15 answers |
| cerddorion | 15 answers |
| Skald | 15 answers |
| medieval singer | 16 answers |
| jongleur | 17 answers |
| minstrel | 21 answers |
| harper | 30 answers |
| Bard | 38 answers |
| Scald | 42 answers |
| Vocalist | 47 answers |
| Poet | 48 answers |
| Singer | 60 answers |
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Sentences with TROUBADOUR (5)
Richard, a professed admirer of the joyous science in all its branches, could imitate either the minstrel or troubadour.
Thus the evening passed, and at its end Makrisi followed the troubadour to his regranted fief of Vaquieras.
Moreover, he usually did the right thing, the opportune, graceful, exquisite thing--except, when he did very cruel things--bent upon making people happy when their existence touched his, just as he insisted that his material environment should be beautiful; lavishing upon those near him all the warmth and radiance of his rich nature, all the homage of the poet and troubadour, and, when they were no longer near, forgetting--for that also was a part of Adriance's gift.
Norman of Torn and the old man seldom joined in these wild orgies, but when minstrel, or troubadour, or storyteller wandered to his grim lair, the Outlaw of Torn would sit enjoying the break in the winter’s dull monotony to as late an hour as another; nor could any man of his great fierce horde outdrink their chief when he cared to indulge in the pleasures of the wine cup.
And well for him, supposing him to be no great master in that art, if he stumble across no stolid peasant at a corner; for on such an occasion, I scarcely know which is the more troubled, or whether it is worse to suffer the confusion of your troubadour, or the unfeigned alarm of your clown.
Quotes with TROUBADOUR (3)
The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty.
For the lady’s husband to become actively jealous was considered both doltish and dishonorable, a breach of the spirit of courtesy. Yet the record suggests that this was a fairly common occurrence and one of the occupational hazards of being a troubadour. The most famous crime passionnel of the epoch was the murder of Guilhem de Cabestanh, a troubadour knight whose love for the Lady Seremonda aroused the jealousy of her husband, Raimon de Castel-Roussillon. The story goes tha…
You've honey on your tongue, ma fifille," Maman once said. "If you'd lived in earlier times, you could have been a troubadour.""... There aren't any troubadours any more, are there, Maman?" Marie said. "And if there were, girls wouldn't be allowed to be one.""Probably not," Maman agreed sadly." I'll be one anyway," I said with determination. Maman smiled and gently pulled on my hair. "I'm sure you will, ma fifille, a clever girl like you. You can do whatever you like in this …
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Appears in: NYT.
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