单词 | balladry |
释义 | balladryn. Ballads collectively, ballad verse or songs; (also) composition of, or in the style of, ballads. In early use often depreciative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > narrative poem > [noun] > ballad > collectively balladry1596 ballad poetry1781 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. O2 Were their stuffe by ten millions more..barbarous than balletry, he would haue prest it vpon Wolfe. 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. x. sig. H6 Now iudiciall Musus readeth thee? He'le whip each line, he'le scourge thy balladry. 1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia sig. A4v Such massacre's made of thy balladry. 1631 R. Brathwait Cater-character iii. 19 in Whimzies An obscene veine of Ballatry, which makes the Wenches of the Greene laugh. 1683 H. Purcell Sonnata's III Parts To Rdr. p.i The levity and balladry of our neighbours. 1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 65 455 Torturing himself to unite old balladry with modern sentiment. 1876 H. Melville Clarel I. ii. x. 188 Have done with this lewd balladry. 1940 Kingsport (Tennessee) Times 21 July 5/8 The Festival was begun in 1931 as an endeavor to..preserve the best in Anglo-Saxon folk music, balladry, arts, and traditions. 2001 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 114 376/2 The lighter side of balladry is evident, too, in a version of ‘John Blunt’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1596 |
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