Definition of Ballades

1. Noun. (plural of ballade) ¹

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Definition of Ballades

1. ballade [n] - See also: ballade

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ballades

ball washers
balla
ballache
ballad
ballad maker
ballad opera
ballad operas
ballade
balladed
balladeer
balladeered
balladeering
balladeers
ballader
balladers
ballades (current term)
balladic
balladin
ballading
balladins
balladist
balladists
balladlike
balladmonger
balladmongers
balladries
balladry
ballads
ballan
ballans

Literary usage of Ballades

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ballade by Helen Louise Cohen (1915)
"These ballades of the romans and of Les- curel are all, in a sense, transitional types, but the ballades in La Prise Amoureuse are especially so. ..."

2. The Literary Movement in France During the Nineteenth Century by Georges Pellissier (1897)
"His ballades are "efforts in a fanciful style," to which he has brought " more of his ... However, his ballades already betray a taste for color, setting, ..."

3. English Literature from Widsith to the Death of Chaucer: A Source Book by Allen Rogers Benham (1916)
"... may be that Gower gradually drew away from Richard to Henry IV, for whom the poet declares himself thus in the Dedication to his ballades: Your ..."

4. The Fourteenth Century by Frederick John Snell (1899)
"... DES CENT ballades.' THAT Italian literature stands in some kind of filial relation to that of Provence, is a fact accepted on all ..."

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