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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-168/
- Published: 2020-07-12T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-07-12T02:59:53.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

The word for today is…

troubadour (noun) – 1\. One of a class of 12th-century and 13th-century lyric poets in southern France, northern Italy, and northern Spain, who composed songs in langue d’oc often about courtly love.  
2\. A strolling minstrel.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/troubadour?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : In the Middle Ages, troubadours were the shining knights of poetry (in fact, some were ranked as high as knights in the feudal class structure). Troubadours made chivalry a high art, writing poems and singing about chivalrous love, creating the mystique of refined damsels, and glorifying the gallant knight on his charger. Troubadour was a fitting name for such creative artists: it derives from an Old Occitan word meaning “to compose.” In modern contexts, troubadour still refers to the song-meisters of the Middle Ages, but it has been extended to cover contemporary poet-musicians as well.

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