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- noun Plural form of
troubadour .
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According to several sources, the group's founder, Gaspar Vargas, moved his troubadours from the Jalisco region of the country to Mexico City in 1898.
A new generation embraces centuries-old music of Mexico 1997
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According to several sources, the group's founder, Gaspar Vargas, moved his troubadours from the Jalisco region of the country to Mexico City in 1898.
A new generation embraces centuries-old music of Mexico 1997
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Before his time, those kind of itinerant authors, called troubadours or romanciers, were a species of madmen who attracted the admiration of fools.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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What is stressed in both the Grail legends and the courtly love tradition of the troubadours is the spiritual elevation of, and respect for, women.
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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What is stressed in both the Grail legends and the courtly love tradition of the troubadours is the spiritual elevation of, and respect for, women.
The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004
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The Tartars have been called the troubadours of Asia -- and of Asia in the widest sense of the word -- penetrating into the heart of the Caucasus on the west and reaching through the country eastward to the shores of the Yellow Sea.
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Edward MacDowell 1884
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-- Lyric poetry barely existed during these centuries except south of the Loire, in the Latin country, among the poets called troubadours; nevertheless, in the north, the noble Count Thibaut of
Initiation into Literature ��mile Faguet 1881
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He was right; the troubadours were his most devoted friends; Bertram de
Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Thousands of poets, who were called troubadours (from _trobar_, to find or invent), flourished in this new language almost contemporaneously, and spread their reputation from the extremity of Spain to that of Italy.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities Anne C. Lynch Botta 1853
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Before his time, those kind of itinerant authors, called troubadours or romanciers, were a species of madmen who attracted the admiration of fools.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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