tensonn.
/ˈtɛnsən//ˈtɒnsɒ̃/ A contest in verse between rival troubadours; a piece of verse or song composed for or sung in such a contest.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > troubadourism > types of troubadour lyric
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1840 R. Browning Sordello ii. 686 While, out of dream, his day's work went To tune a crazy tenzon or sirvent.
1883 A. H. Wodehouse in Grove Dict. Music III. 585/1 The tensons, or contentions, were metrical dialogues of lively repartee on some disputed point of gallantry.
1895 H. Gaelyn To Elise Would I could write for my Elise Trim triolets and tensons tender!
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