Noun: ballade
| Singular | ballade |
| Plural | ballades |
Sample Sentences
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Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there. [1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:]
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"Dead and gone!" as Andrew Lang re-echoes in a sweetly mournful ballade[… [1915, Richard Le Gallienne, Vanishing Roads and Other Essays:]
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Even a 10-minute Chopin ballade for piano, let alone Messiaen’s 75-minute “Turangalila Symphony,” tries to grapple with, activate and organize a relatively substantial span of time. [2007 December 30, Anthony Tommasini, “A Patience to Listen, Alive and Well”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:]
Nouns inflected like ballade
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French ballade. Doublet of balada and ballad. See: French Nouns '
ballade'.