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Definition of Sirvente

Sirvente
Sirvente Sir`vente", n. [F. sirvente, fr. Pr. sirventes, sirventesc, originally, the poem of, or concerning, a sirvent, fr. sirvent, properly, serving, n., one who serves (e. g., as a soldier), fr. servir to serve, L. servire.] A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages.

Meaning of Sirvente from wikipedia

- The sirventes or serventes (Old Occitan: [siɾvenˈtes]), sometimes translated as "service song", was a genre of Old Occitan lyric poetry practiced by the...
- Guimarães D, Lima P, Bueno CR, Vasconcelos A, Roman-Campos D, Menezes CA, Sirvente RA, Salemi VM, Mady C, Caron MG, Ferreira AJ, Brum PC, Resende RR, Cruz...
- these genres were highly fluid. A cross between a sirventes and a canso was a meg-sirventes (half-sirventes). A tenso could be "invented" by a single poet;...
- writing and music, and two poems are attributed to him. The first one is a sirventes in Old French, Dalfin je us voill desrenier, and the second one is a lament...
- composed love songs (cansos) but was better known for his political songs (sirventes). He was involved in revolts against Richard I and then Phillip II. He...
- a lover, like a commanding officer (when combined, in a way, with the sirventes). The maldit-comiat is especially ****ociated with the Catalan troubadours...
- other three being sirventes), constituting a debate with Raimon de Durfort (also from Quercy), and Arnaut Daniel. All three sirventes were written in monorhyming...
- minor troubadour notable mainly for initiating a cycle of five short sirventes in the summer of 1285. According to a rubric of the chansonnier in which...
- Amoros dau Luc was a troubadour who wrote a satirical sirventes, "En Chantarel, sirventes ab motz plas," which urged Henry III of England and his ally...
- the trobar clus style. Below is a sample of the style from Marcoat's sirventes Mentre m'obri eis ****sel, wherein the poet himself remarks on his moz...