troubadour
noun/ˈtruːbədɔː(r)/
/ˈtruːbədɔːr/
(literary)- a writer and performer of songs or poetry (after the French travelling performers of the eleventh to thirteenth centuries)Word OriginFrench, from Provençal trobador, from trobar ‘find, invent, compose in verse’.
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