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sirvente

sirvente noun: a typically satirical song sung by the troubadours of Provence.

Noun

sirvente (plural sirventes)

  1. (historical) A typically satirical song sung by the troubadours of Provence.
    • 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.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...
    • [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.1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The White Company, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Thomas Y[oung] Crowell & Company […], →OCLC, page 138

sirvente meaning in Tamil

sirvente in Tamil

கட்டளை அங்கதப்பாட்டு

Forms of sirvente

pluralsirventes

Origin of sirvente

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.

Questions about sirvente

What does sirvente mean?
Sirvente means a typically satirical song sung by the troubadours of Provence.
What is sirvente in Tamil?
Sirvente in Tamil is கட்டளை அங்கதப்பாட்டு. See Sirvente meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sirvente?
Sirvente is a noun.
What is the plural of sirvente?
The plural of sirvente is sirventes.

Words near sirvente in the dictionary

  1. siruping
  2. sirups
  3. sirupy
  4. SIRV
  5. SIRVA
  6. sirvente
  7. sirventes
  8. sirwal
  9. sirwals
  10. siryah
  11. sirystes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sirvente (page history and authors); sirvente (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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