Plural of ballade; multiple poetic compositions using the ballade verse form.
Regular French-derived English pluralization of 'ballade.'
François Villon, a medieval French poet, wrote some of the most famous ballades ever, and his repeated refrains became so poignant that scholars still debate whether the form itself creates melancholy or if Villon made us hear it that way.
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