Trou'ba-dour', n.

(trōō′ba-dōōr′, 110), n. [Fr. troubadour, O. Fr. trouvère, troverre, troveure, Pr. trobaire, trobador, Sp. & Pg. trovador, It. trovatore, from Fr. trouver, O. Fr. trover, trover, trouver, Pr. trobar, Sp. & Pg. trovar, It. trovare, to find, invent, compose.] One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the latter end of the thirteenth century, principally at Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy.