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Noun
troubadour (plural troubadours)
- An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.
- ✤ Sitting in the courtroom…, their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted adapters, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times – the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution.1
- ✤ ““Not a human, not yet a vampire,” to paraphrase one of your contemporary musical troubadours.”2
Etymology
From Old Occitan trobar (“to find”) via Old French troubadour. Piecewise doublet of trouveur.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtruːbəˌdɔː/
- (General American) IPA: /ˈtrubəˌdɔr/
- Audio (General American): 🔊
Printed 2026-06-28.
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Link to original Footnotes
2014 April 24, Alan Cowell, “At Pistorius trial, Twitterati have their day in court”, in The New York Times , archived from the original on 17 April 2023: ↩
2023 August 17, Jeremy Levick & Rajat Suresh, “Hybrid Creatures” (0:18 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows , season 5, episode 7, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry): ↩
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