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troubadours

noun

plural of troubadour

as in bards

a writer and performer of songs or poetry in the Middle Ages

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Recent Examples of troubadours Variations in form and narrative However, many poets, bards, and troubadours experimented with form to create ballads featuring more than four lines in a stanza and different rhyme schemes or meters. — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Oct. 2026 Stroll around the Artist Quarter, where troubadours serenade passersby in the evenings. — Zanny Merullo, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2026 His early writing reflected the popular style of the French troubadours, courtly poet-musicians who sang of their longing for a beautiful lady. — Claudia Roth Pierpont, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025 That exquisitely rare skill — the ability to arrange a handful of ordinary notes in a way that makes time stop and pulses quicken — unites long-anonymous troubadours, symphonists, Broadway entertainers, earnest singer-songwriters, griots, and ancient clerics. — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025 Medieval Europe, an era that gave us heraldry, court jesters, and troubadours, is rendered in dull, grayish brown hues. — Will Collins, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025

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Noun

This is a classic stair-step uptrend, the kind the poets of Ancient Greece composed odes to and bards of the north told tales about around the fire in days of old.

— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026
Before it was written down, bards recited the adventures of Odysseus and the Greeks orally.

— Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of bards

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There is of course another way to hear ABBA songs sung live onstage, though sadly without Greek island backdrops or background singers wearing floppy swim fins.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
Sheik, who was a Buddhist, built these songs around trancelike mantras, asking singers to sustain long and clear notes near the top of their register like contrails across the sky.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026

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Steve Martin and Alison Brown have turned it into a vintage-sounding bluegrass tune and recorded it with an all-star cast of singers and players from that genre, including two of the great living bluegrass vocalists, Del McCoury and Dan Tyminski.

— Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
Not only was there taking the project from two vocalists to one, but there are some apparent stylistic swings, too.

— Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 6 Oct. 2026

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