sirvente

Definitions

A typically satirical song sung by the troubadours of Provence.

historical

Equivalents

Examples

“The knight in the meantime, had brought the strings into some order⟳, and after a short prelude, asked his host⟳ whether he would choose⟳ a sirvente in the language of oc, or a lai in the language of oui, or a virelai, or a ballad in the vulgar English.”

“[T]here was a little, sleek, fat clerk of the name⟳ of Chaucer, who was so apt at rondel, sirvente, or tonson, that no man dare give⟳ back a foot from the walls, lest he find⟳ it all set⟳ down in his rhymes and sung by every underling and varlet in the camp.”

CEFR level