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tenson

/ten-sohn/US // tɛnˈsoʊn //

滕森,腾森,腾信,腾迅

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a Provençal poem taking the form of a dialogue or debate between two rival troubadours.

Examples

  • Among the Troubadours, this species of musical dialogue took the form of the tenson, or contention.

  • Disputes before these courts usually took the form of the tenson, or contention, already described.

  • When more than two singers took part in a tenson, it became a tournament.

  • Somewhere out in the gloom coyotes chattered and yelped, and from far across the dusky valley others answered—a doleful tenson.

  • Suppose, doctor, you were to get up a tenson a little more relative to our own wise days.