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 Definitions of ballade  [əˈlɑd, bæ-]  

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Definition of 'ballade' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

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)

Definition of 'ballade' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) ballade
a poem consisting of 3 stanzas and an envoy


Definition of 'ballade' Webster Dictionary 

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



'ballade' - Nearby Entries  

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