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ballade

bal·lade

ballade

 
pronunciation:
b lad [or] ba lad
part of speech: noun
definition 1: a poem of three eight-line or ten-line stanzas followed by an envoy of four or five lines, the stanzas and the envoy all having the same last line.
definition 2: a romantic musical composition, often for the piano.