[Loch-Ruadh] word of the day - "troubadour"

[Jane Sitton]

The Word of the Day for September 17 is:

troubadour • \TROO-buh-dor\ • (noun)  1:  any of a
class of poet-musicians flourishing especially in
southern France and northern Italy during the 11th,
12th, and 13th centuries  *2:  a strolling minstrel;
also : anyone who in music, verse, or rhetorical prose
promotes some cause

Example sentence:

Pete makes his living as a troubadour, traveling
from town to town with his guitar and playing his own
music in cafes and music halls across the Midwest.

Did you know?

In the Middle Ages, troubadours were the shining
knights of poetry (in fact, some were ranked as high
as knights in the feudal class structure).  It was
troubadours who made chivalry a high art, writing
poems and singing about chivalrous love, creating the
mystique of refined damsels, and glorifying the
gallant knight on his charger.  "Troubadour" was
a fitting name for such creative artists; it derives
from an Old Provençal word meaning "to compose."  In
modern contexts, "troubadour" still refers to the
song-meisters of the Middle Ages, but it has been
extended to cover contemporary poet-musicians as well.

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