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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Ballade

/bəl-äd'/ · Bal·lade · IPA /bəlˈɑd/
01 n. A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten li…
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    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.