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Meanings of ballade in English
Musical setting of a literary ballad; poetic and musical genre in the 18th and 19th centuries, popular with the Romantics and their later epigones.
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Usage of ballade in English
1
A young man writes a ballade and dreams over a bit of lace.
2
And as capable as any Chopin ballade at exciting Viola's blood.
3
The second ballade possesses beauties in no way inferior to those of the first.
4
I'm going to write a ballade to her and mail it to her anonymously.
5
I like that ballade of yours on 'Henri at Cahors.'
6
I read somewhere a ballade asking-whereare the "best sellers" of yesteryear?
7
The rhymer's eyes widened as he drew breath to blow forth the envoi of his ballade.
8
So I took matches, burnt, and with just 60 of them wrote the first stanza of a ballade.
9
Vaguely he tried to shape a ballade, a noble ballade in honour of all things good to eat.
10
I began, choosing the form of an old French ballade; it is the easiest because it is the most restricted-
11
Could there be a more poignant symbol of irreclaimable vanished things than that so happily hit on by the old ballade-maker:
12
Victor laughed, and began explaining the difficulty of constructing a ballade of double refrain, when a hand fell upon the door.
13
Somebody had deloused Villon and shown that the Grosse Margot of the ballade was not a woman but an inn sign.
14
We passed a very happy day together, in honour of which I made yesterday a holiday...I have a new ballade by Chopin.
15
There is quite a bundle of Mr. Baring's letters to Gilbert, and, in spite of the apologetic ballade, a fair number of answers.
16
He had his dear, illiterate mother, for whom, and at whose request, he wrote that unexpected ballade of prayer to the Mother of God.
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Ballade through the time