Definitions for tenson

tenson ten·son

Spelling: [ten-sohn]
IPA: /tɛnˈsoʊn/

Tenson is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in tenson (ennost).

Definitions for tenson

noun

  1. a Provençal poem taking the form of a dialogue or debate between two rival troubadours.

Origin of tenson

1830-40; French; Old French tençon Provençal tensoun, tenso contest, dispute Latin tēnsiōn- (stem of tēnsiō); see tension

Examples for tenson

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.

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

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

This group contains two-part songs, arranged dialogue-fashion, like a debat or a tenson.

The tenson or debate is in dialogue form, and when there are more than two disputants is called torneijamens.

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