trouvère

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We seldom know the name of the trouvère by whom these anecdotes were versified.

From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch

He is a poet in the primitive sense of the word, or, as he styled himself in one of his books, a "trouvère."

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

And though in the lyric, the debt due to both troubadour and trouvère is unmistakable, it is equally unmistakable what mighty usury the minnesingers have paid for the capital they borrowed.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George

The poet is now Rymer or Rimmer, while Trover, Fr. trouvère, a poet, minstrel, lit. finder, has been confused with Trower, for Thrower, a name connected with weaving.

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest

As an old trouvère says: "The lover does not leave his beloved but with the sanction of his soul."

From Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Cannan, Gilbert