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trouvere noun. Also trouveur [-'v?:, -v:r (pl. same)/. L18.
[Old French trovere (mod. trouvere, trouveur) from troveor, from trover (mod. trouver find) compose in verse, invent, find, ult. origin unkn. Cf. TROUBADOUR.]
Hist. Any of a class of French medieval epic poets composing esp. chansons de geste and fabliaux, living in northern France between the 11th and 14th cents.