trobairitz means A female composer of Old Occitan lyric poetry; a female troubadour. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 67 out of 100.
Why this word is great
TROBAIRITZ — [Noun] A female composer and performer of lyric poetry in the Old Occitan language during the High Middle Ages. Borrowed from Occitan trobairitz, the feminine form of trobador ("troubadour"), from the Old Occitan verb trobar ("to find, invent, compose"). Unlike "troubadour" (which specifically denotes the male poet-composer of the same courtly tradition) or "minstrel" (which suggests an itinerant performer of diverse entertainments), the trobairitz was an aristocratic woman who claimed the act of poetic invention as her own domain. She is the glint of a ring on a finger strumming a vihuela, the precise geometry of embroidered sleeves as she gestures, and the defiant signature at the close of a manuscript—a testament to the act of finding one’s own song in a world that had already written the words for you.
noun
- A female composer of Old Occitan lyric poetry; a female troubadour.“This single melody, which is also the only one by a trobairitz to have been identified, is preserved in only one thirteenth-century manuscript, and it includes only the first cobla, or stanza .”