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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.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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