All trouvere synonyms
trou·vère
T t noun trouvere
- balladeer — a singer of ballads
- folk singer — a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing his or her own accompaniment on a guitar.
- minnesinger — one of a class of German lyric poets and singers of the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries.
- minstrel — a medieval poet and musician who sang or recited while accompanying himself on a stringed instrument, either as a member of a noble household or as an itinerant troubadour.
- jongleur — (in medieval France and Norman England) an itinerant minstrel or entertainer who sang songs, often of his own composition, and told stories.