E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Trou’badours (3 syl.).
Minstrels of the south of France in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries; so called from the Provençal verb troubar (to invent). Our word poet signifies exactly the same thing, being the Greek for “create.” (See TROUVÈRES.)
