Borrowed fromFrenchballade.Doublet ofballad.
ballade (pluralballades)
- (music) Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.
1892,Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, inThe Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers, […],→OCLC: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 aballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
2007 December 30, Anthony Tommasini, “A Patience to Listen, Alive and Well”, inNew York Times[1]:Even a 10-minute Chopinballade for piano, let alone Messiaen’s 75-minute “Turangalila Symphony,” tries to grapple with, activate and organize a relatively substantial span of time.
- (poetry) Apoem of one or moretriplets of seven- or eight-linestanzas, each ending with the same line asrefrain, and usually anenvoi; more generally, any poem in stanzas of equal length.
FromFrenchballade.
ballade c (singular definiteballaden,plural indefiniteballader)
- ballad (narrative poem)
- (uncountable)mischief,hijinks
- (uncountable)trouble,unrest
- ballad (slow romantic song)
ballade f (pluralballadenorballades,diminutiveballadetje n)
- ballad
- “ballade” inWoordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
Inherited fromOld Frenchbalade, fromProvençalbalada(“song for dancing”), frombalar(“to dance”), fromLate Latinballare, borrowed from, or related to,Ancient Greekβαλλίζω(ballízō).Doublet ofballée.
ballade f (pluralballades)
- ballade (lyric poem)
- ballad
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