Ballad
101Ballad of Reading Gaol — a long poem by Oscar Wilde, written in 1898 after he had been in prison, about a fellow prisoner who is hanged and about the horror of prison life. * * * …
102Ballad of Reading Gaol, The — /red ing/ a poem (1898) by Oscar Wilde. * * * …
103ballad-opera — англ. [бэ/лэд о/пэрэ] опера, музыка которой взята из нар. популярных песен …
104ballad monger — n. person who writes and sells songs professionally (especially with special words for special occasions, and often with existing melodies) …
105ballad mongers — n. person who writes and sells songs professionally (especially with special words for special occasions, and often with existing melodies) …
106Ballad in Blue — Voir Ballade en bleu …
107ballad-monger — n. 1. Seller or crier of ballads, street song vender. 2. Poetaster, rhymester, would be poet, maker of doggerel, versifier …
108ballad stanza — bal′lad stan za n. pro a four line stanza, popular in ballads, with the first and third lines in iambic tetrameter and the second and fourth in iambic trimeter, rhyming abcb[/ex] • Etymology: 1930–35 …
109ballad opera — /ˈbæləd ˌɒprə/ (say baluhd .opruh) noun a light opera, often humorous or satirical, in which the tunes are taken from popular songs, and the dialogue is spoken …
110ballad-monger — /ˈbæləd mʌŋgə/ (say baluhd mungguh) noun 1. a seller of ballads. 2. a bad poet …