ballatry

English

Noun

ballatry

  1. Obsolete form of balladry.
    • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
      If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreation and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. […] The villages also must have their visitors to inquire what lectures the bagpipe and the rebeck reads, even to the ballatry and the gamut of every municipal fiddler […]
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