Sirvente

Quick meaning: Sirvente is a noun meaning (music, historical) A typically satirical song sung by the troubadours of Provence.

Meaning

(music, historical) A typically satirical song sung by the troubadours of Provence.

Example Sentences

The knight in the meantime, had brought the strings into some order, and after a short prelude, asked his host whether he would choose a sirvente in the language of oc, or a lai in the language of oui, or a virelai, or a ballad in the vulgar English.

[T]here was a little, sleek, fat clerk of the name of Chaucer, who was so apt at rondel, sirvente, or tonson, that no man dare give back a foot from the walls, lest he find it all set down in his rhymes and sung by every underling and varlet in the camp.

Word Forms

• sirventes

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chanson, villanel, bergeret, verset, leveche, serenate.

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