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Topic: PERFORMING

Date: 1700-1800
Language: French
Origin: Old Provençal trobador, from trobar 'to make music', probably from Latin tropus; TROPE

troubadour

 noun
     
trou‧ba‧dour [countable]
AP a type of singer and poet who travelled around the palaces and castles of Southern Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries
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