英和和英

語源

From Old Occitan trobar (“to find”) via Old French troubadour. Piecewise doublet of trouveur.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈtruːbəˌdɔː/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈtrubəˌdɔr/

名詞

troubadour (plural troubadours)

1. An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.
   • 2014 April 24, Alan Cowell, “At Pistorius trial, Twitterati have their day in court”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 17 April 2023:

     Sitting in the courtroom ..., their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted adapters, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times – the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution.

   • 2023 August 17, Jeremy Levick & Rajat Suresh, “Hybrid Creatures” (0:18 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎, season 5, episode 7, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):

     “"Not a human, not yet a vampire," to paraphrase one of your contemporary musical troubadours.”

等位語

• trobairitz

派生語

参照

• “troubadour”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.