ballade

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ballade

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Borrowed from French ballade. Doublet of balada and ballad.

noun ballades

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.
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.

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@misc{ballade_2026,
  title = {ballade},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ballade},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}