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ball-peen hammer |
ball-shaped |
ballad |
ballad maker |
ballad monger |
ballade
| balladeer
| ballader
| balladmonger
| balladry
| ballahoo
ballade
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ballade has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ballade, n.
1 a poem of one or more triplets of stanzas with a repeated refrain and an envoy.
2 Mus. a short lyrical piece, esp. for piano.
1 a poem of one or more triplets of stanzas with a repeated refrain and an envoy.
2 Mus. a short lyrical piece, esp. for piano.
Etymology
earlier spelling and pronunc. of BALLAD
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