ballade

Borrowed from French ballade. Doublet of ballad.

ballade (plural ballades)

1. (music) Any of various genres of single-movement musical pieces having lyrical and narrative elements.
   • 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The 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 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.

   • 1915, Richard Le Gallienne, Vanishing Roads and Other Essays:

     "Dead and gone!" as Andrew Lang re-echoes in a sweetly mournful ballade […]

   • 2007 December 30, Anthony Tommasini, “A Patience to Listen, Alive and Well”, in New York Times‎:

     Even a 10-minute Chopin ballade for piano, let alone Messiaen’s 75-minute “Turangalila Symphony,” tries to grapple with, activate and organize a relatively substantial span of time.

2. (poetry) 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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From French ballade.

• Rhymes: -aːdə

ballade c (singular definite balladen, plural indefinite ballader)

1. ballad (narrative poem)
2. (uncountable) mischief, hijinks
3. (uncountable) trouble, unrest
4. ballad (slow romantic song)

• “ballade” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “ballade” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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ballade f (plural balladen or ballades, diminutive balladetje n)

1. ballad

• “ballade” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Inherited from Old French balade, from Provençal balada (“song for dancing”), from balar (“to dance”), from Late Latin ballare, borrowed from, or related to, Ancient Greek βαλλίζω (ballízō). Doublet of ballée.

• IPA^(key): /ba.lad/

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ballade f (plural ballades)

1. ballade (lyric poem)
2. ballad

• → Danish: ballade
• → English: ballade
• → Romanian: baladă
• → Russian: баллада (ballada)
  • → Georgian: ბალადა (balada)
  • → Kazakh: баллада (ballada)
• → Turkish: balad

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

• “ballade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.