one of a class of lyric poets and poetmusicians often of knightly rank who flourished from the th to the end of the th century chiefly in the south of France and the north of Italy and whose major theme was courtly love.
A French medieval lyric poet composing and singing in Provenþal in the 11th to 13th centuries, esp. on the theme of courtly love
A poet who writes verse to music
(French) any of a class of poet-musicians flourishing esp in southern France and northern Italy during the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries [n -S]