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UK
/bˈæləd/
]
[ US /ˈbæɫəd/ ]
[ US /ˈbæɫəd/ ]
NOUN
- a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
- a narrative poem of popular origin
How To Use ballad In A Sentence
- The tenor saxophonist's rousing stomps and sensitive ballads are deeply imprinted in his fans' memories.
- +The Story+ of this ballad, simple in itself, introduces to us the elaborate question of the ‘lyke-wake,’ or the practice of watching through the night by the side of a corpse. Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series
- Transforming the press account, Kelly's own narrative further compresses Kastriot's story of miraculous survival into three stanzas and a shorter envoi which are intended to evoke the traditional folk ballad.
- The blind man had finished his song; he began thrumming the strings again and singing amusing ballads.
- They're stupendously boring goody-goodies who are permanently belting out power ballads. The Sun
- Then he argues that stories, ballads, and legends are not things of the past.
- Magos Herrera has evolved into a global-centric musician, capable of expressing herself in a multiplicity of languages, and vocal settings; from straight-ahead, ballads, scats, and the various dimensions and invention of Afro-Latin music. HW Pick: Magos Herrera, Luna Menguante Barluna «
- There are no surprises here: it's rustic Americana and country inflected ballads all the way.
- ( "Some will rob you with a six-gun/Some with a fountain pen," go the words to Woody Guthrie's ballad "Pretty Boy Floyd.") Richard B. Woodward: Bernard Madoff and Anton Chigurh: the Con Man as Serial Killer
- One may search these "Salt Water Ballads" through from the opening line of "Consecration" to "The Song At Parting" and find no faint suggestion of that deep religious glory of "The Everlasting Mercy. Giant Hours with Poet Preachers