troubadour
noun
- composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈtruːbəˌdɔː/ / /ˈtrubəˌdɔr/
noun
Etymology: From Old Occitan trobar (“to find”) via Old French troubadour. Piecewise doublet of trouveur.
- An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.
“Sitting in the courtroom ..., their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted adapters, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times – the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution.”
““"Not a human, not yet a vampire," to paraphrase one of your contemporary musical troubadours.””