TROBAIRITZ
[noun]
1. any female wandering singer or minstrel; female troubadour.
2. Occitan female troubadours of the 12th and 13th centuries, active from around 1170 to approximately 1260.
Etymology: the word trobairitz was first used in the 13th-century romance Flamenca. It comes from the Provençal word trobar, the literal meaning of which is “to find”, and the technical meaning of which is “to compose”.