sirvente

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French sirvente, from Old Provençal sirventes, sirventesc, originally, the poem of, or concerning, a sirvent, from sirvent, properly, serving, n., one who serves (e.g., as a soldier), from servir (to serve), from Latin servīre.

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sirvente (plural sirventes)

  1. (music, historical) A typically satirical song sung by the troubadours of Provence.
    • 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XVII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. [], volume II, Edinburgh: [] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. [], →OCLC, page 42:
      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.
    • 1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The White Company, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Company [], →OCLC, page 138:
      [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.

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sirvente m (plural sirventès)

  1. Alternative form of sirventès

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