Trobairitz

Quick meaning: Trobairitz is a noun meaning (historical) A female composer of Old Occitan lyric poetry; a female troubadour.

Meaning

(historical) A female composer of Old Occitan lyric poetry; a female troubadour.

Example Sentences

We know about twenty trobairitz by name, and their corpus includes some thirty-two songs.

Studies have tentatively identified some common themes in the trobairitz corpus as well as variety among women's voices.

While trobairitz often played lutes, they might also sing while playing a harp, an instrument that women were often encouraged to master.

This single melody, which is also the only one by a trobairitz to have been identified, is preserved in only one thirteenth-century manuscript, and it includes only the first cobla, or stanza .

Word Forms

• trobairitzes

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tribady, tribade, tryke, tapstress, trickstress, poetette.

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