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tensons

tensons is the plural of tenson.

Meaning of tenson

Noun

tenson (plural tensons)

  1. A form of lyric poem used by troubadours in Provençal in which two voices present different sides of an argument, in alternate stanzas, lines, or groups of lines with identical structure.
    • Kolsen himself (op. cit., II, p. 16) remarks that it seems surprising that, at this early stage in a career which dated only from about 1165 (cf. Jeanroy, op. cit. II, p. 51, note 2), Giraut should address his interlocutor, Raimbaut, in the familiar second person in contrast with his much more...1976, Peire Rogier, Derek E. T. Nicholson, The Poems of the Troubadour Peire Rogier, →ISBN, page 25

Questions about tensons

What is tensons the plural of?
Tensons is the plural of tenson.

Words near tensons in the dictionary

  1. tensometer
  2. tensometers
  3. tensomething
  4. tensomethings
  5. tenson
  6. tensons
  7. tensor
  8. tensor fasciae latae
  9. tensor product
  10. tensor products
  11. tensor tympani

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