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troubadour

trou.ba.dour \'tru:-b*-.do-(*)r, -.do.(*)r, -.du.(*)r\ n [F, fr. OProv 
   trobador, fr. trobar to compose, prob. fr. (assumed)]VL tropare, fr. L 
   tropus trope : one of a class of lyric poets and poet-musicians often of 
   knightly rank  flourishing from the 11th to the end of the 13th century 
   chiefly in Provence, the south of France, and the north of Italy