Definitionn. a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
Last update: June 30, 2016
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Strike up a ballad. [noun]
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His singing of that simple ballad, Martin, is the most trenchant rendering I ever heard in the whole course of my experience. [noun]
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On account of its obscure origin and its oral transmission, the ballad is always the most difficult of literary subjects. [noun]
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In 1897, at Berneval, Oscar Wilde wrote The Ballad of Reading Jail. [noun]
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The sweet ballad is so typical of the sounds played at the end of Northern soul all-nighters. [noun]
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"I should be very sorry if I could not understand a French ballad, little miss." [noun]
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I vow, I have not seen or heard a worse halfpenny ballad; I don't believe you could match it in any pedlar's pack in the country. [noun]
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There were musicians in her ladyship's household--youths who played lute and viol, and sang the dainty, meaningless songs of the latest ballad-mongers very prettily. [noun]
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