trouveur

plural trouveurs

1. datedA minstrel, a troubadour.

   1796, Robert Southey, Joan of Arc, Book IV, 1829, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey, page 16, Meantime the Trouveur struck the harp; he sang Of Lancelot du Lake, the truest Knight That ever loved fair Lady;

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   But, secondly, a great many of these tales were borrowed from the narratives of the trouveurs or minstrels who wandered through the north of France, relating stories or reciting poems for the amusement of their entertainers.

   1834, Robert Thomson, Treatise on the Progress of Literature and its Effects on Society, page 81

   The origin of these tales must be traced to the inventions of the Trouveurs, who doubtless often adopted them from various nations.

   1835, Isaac Disraeli, Curiosities of Literature, First Series, page 118