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Brewer's: Trouveres
(2 syl.) were the troubadours of the north of France, in the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth centuries. So called from trouver, the Walloon verb meaning “to invent.” (See Troubadours.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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