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1. (n.) ballade
a poem commonly of three stanzas having an identical rhyme scheme, followed by an envoy, and having the same last line for each of the stanzas and the envoy.
2. ballade
a romantic musical composition.
Etymology: (1485–95; < MF, var. of baladeballad)
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1. (noun) ballade
a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy
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1. (noun) ballade
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
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