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bush-balladry

bush-balladry is the alternative form of bush balladry.

Meaning of bush balladry

Noun

bush balladry (uncountable)

  1. bush ballads, collectively.
    • Lawson, embittered by personal hardship, concentrated on the harsher aspects of the bush, and the democratic feeling evident in much of the bush balladry became in his verse an emphasis on social injustice which, however warranted, was not on the whole a characteristic of life outback.1957, Frederick Thomas Bennett Macartney, A Historical Outline of Australian Literature, page 17

Questions about bush-balladry

What is bush-balladry the alternative form of?
Bush-balladry is the alternative form of bush balladry.

Words near bush-balladry in the dictionary

  1. bush weed
  2. bush weeing
  3. bush week
  4. bush weeks
  5. bush wees
  6. bush-balladry
  7. bush-bash
  8. bush-bashed
  9. bush-basher
  10. bush-bashers
  11. bush-bashes

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