sirvente

A form of lyric verse of the Provençal troubadours satirizing political figures, personal rivals, or social morals.

In music, a service-song (so called in distinction from a love-song), a kind of song composed by the trouvères and troubadours of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, usually to satirize the faults and vices of the great and of the society of their day

A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, — often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages.

A mostly satirical song sung by the troubadours of Provence