Crossword-Solution: BALLADE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ballade | n. | A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “BALLADE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Verse with an envoi | 1 answer |
| Poetic piece of music. | 1 answer |
| 24-line verse form | 1 answer |
| Chopin dedicated one to Schumann | 1 answer |
| Chaucer poem | 2 answers |
| French poetic form. | 2 answers |
| French poem. | 3 answers |
| Piano composition | 5 answers |
| FORM of verse | 6 answers |
| Chopin work | 7 answers |
| CHAUCERIAN VERSE FORM | 10 answers |
| Chopin composition | 13 answers |
| lyric | 16 answers |
| type of poem | 21 answers |
| verse form | 27 answers |
| music | 34 answers |
| Poem | 37 answers |
| MUSICAL work | 49 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with BALLADE (5)
Ballade of a Ship Down by the flash of the restless water The dim White Ship like a white bird lay; Laughing at life and the world they sought her, And out she swung to the silvering bay.
Such intricate forms as Charles had been used to from childhood, the ballade with its scanty rhymes; the rondel, with the recurrence first of the whole, then of half the burthen, in thirteen verses, seem to have been invented for the prison and the sick bed.
And it happened to him, he tells us in a ballade, to remember his happiness over there in the past; and he was both sad and merry at the recollection, and could not have his fill of gazing on the shores of France.
This was when Jehan Nègre, the Lombard, came to Blois and played chess against all these chess-players, and won much money from my lord and his intimates; or when Baudet Harenc of Chalons made ballades before all these ballade-makers.
Where Master Baudet Harenc, of Chalons, found a sympathetic, or perhaps a derisive audience (for who can tell nowadays the degree of Baudet’s excellence in his art?), favour would not be wanting for the greatest ballade-maker of all time.
Quotes with BALLADE (2)
Something flickered in the distance, dressing the darkness in a soft veil of blue. Out of the blue came an explosion of sounds followed by the seamlessly expressed melancholy of Chopin’s “Ballade no. 1.
Spleen Je suis comme le roi d'un pays pluvieux, Riche, mais impuissant, jeune et pourtant très vieux, Qui, de ses précepteurs méprisant les courbettes, S'ennuie avec ses chiens comme avec d'autres bêtes. Rien ne peut l'égayer, ni gibier, ni faucon, Ni son peuple mourant en face du balcon. Du bouffon favori la grotesque ballade Ne distrait plus le front de ce cruel malade; Son lit fleurdelisé se transforme en tombeau, Et les dames d'atour, pour qui tout prince est beau, Ne sav…
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Appears in: NYT, WP.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1952–2015).