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means A poet-musician of medieval southern France who composed and performed lyric verse, typically about courtly love, often in service of a noble patron.

from From Old Occitan 'trobador,' tied to the verb 'trobar,' meaning 'to find' or 'to compose' — a troubadour was literally one who 'finds' or invents verses. Some scholars link 'trobar' to Latin 'tropus' (a musical/rhetorical figure, from Greek 'tropos'), suggesting the word grew out of the language of musical composition; others have floated a connection to Arabic poetic traditions via contact in medieval Iberia, though this remains debated rather than settled. The word passed into French as 'troubadour' and from there into English, carrying with it the romance of Occitania's courts.