found: Work cat.: Medieval debate poetry, 1987:introd. (Debate poetry: verse debate on a multitude of topics; jeux-partis, tenzone, streitgediche)
found: Shipley dict. world lit. terms(Débat, streitgedicht: contest in verse, allegorical, a lit. form)
found: Holman handbk. to lit.(Débat: a type of lit. composition, usually in verse ... in which two persons or objects, frequently allegorical, debated some specific topic and then referred it to a judge)
found: Cuddon dict. lit. terms(Débat: a kind of poetic contest) p. 688 (tenson, tenzone: poetic composition, a debate bet. two poets, or with a poet versus an imaginary opponent)
found: Web. 3(Débat)
notfound: Yelland handbk. lit. terms;LC data base, 6/16/87;PREMARC, 6/16/87;Hennepin;Britannica Macro.