Troubadour (noun)
tru-ba-door
Originally A French medieval lyric poet composing and singing in Provençal in the 11th to 13th centuries, but today a troubador is any poet who writes verse to music.
From French Provincial, ‘trobar’ to find, invent, compose.
Example sentences
“He’s known as the town troubadour; he doesn’t like to be called a busker.”
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