tenzon
tenzon is the alternative form of tenson.
Meaning of tenson
Noun
tenson (plural tensons)
- 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
Forms of tenzon
| plural | tenzons |
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- What is tenzon the alternative form of?
- Tenzon is the alternative form of tenson.
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