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ballades

ballades is the plural of ballade.

Meaning of ballade

Noun

ballade (plural ballades)

  1. Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.
    • Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC
  2. A poem of one or more triplets of seven- or eight-line stanzas, each ending with the same line as refrain, and usually an envoi; more generally, any poem in stanzas of equal length.

Questions about ballades

What is ballades the plural of?
Ballades is the plural of ballade.

Words near ballades in the dictionary

  1. balladeered
  2. balladeering
  3. balladeers
  4. ballader
  5. balladers
  6. ballades
  7. balladesque
  8. balladic
  9. balladical
  10. balladier
  11. balladiers

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